Vercel: The anti-vendor-lock-in cloud
Framework-defined infrastructure interprets your code and provisions what you need, keeping your application portable across any platform.
What 986 million code pushes say about the developer workflow in 2025
Nearly a billion commits later, the way we ship code has changed for good. Here’s what the 2025 Octoverse data says about how devs really work now.
Extract audio from your videos with Cloudflare Stream
Cloudflare Stream provides a unified platform for video storage, encoding, and delivery. Our mission has always been to provide developers with powerful and flexible tools to manage their media libraries. Building on that mission, we are now enabling developers to seamlessly extract audio from videos.
The Learning Loop and LLMs
LLMs are useful because they lower the threshold for experimentation. But we have to beware that we don't use them to try to shortcut the learning loop that's an essential part of a software developer's practice. We have seen this problem with tools like low-code platforms, they provide a rapid burst of initial development, but we cannot sustain them because they undermine the learning required fo
Building for the next wave of app monetization
Last week, Google announced that Android apps selling digital goods to US customers can now process in-app payments using third-party payment providers. Here’s a closer look at our solutions for app developers.
GitHub Game Off 2025 theme announcement
GitHub’s annual month-long game jam is back for its 13th year! This November, make a game inspired by the theme WAVES—literal, digital, or emotional. 👋🏻 🌊 📡
Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human
Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For years, listeners have debated whether Shuffle is “truly random,” often noticing patterns or repeated tracks that didn’t feel random enough.
Fading Light And Falling Leaves (November 2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
The new month is just around the corner, and that means: It’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! All of them are designed by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Beyond IP lists- a registry format for bots and agents
We propose an open registry format for Web Bot Auth to move beyond IP-based identity. This allows any origin to discover and verify cryptographic keys for bots, fostering a decentralized and more trustworthy ecosystem.
Policy, privacy and post-quantum: anonymous credentials for everyone
The world is adopting anonymous credentials for digital privacy, but these systems are vulnerable to quantum computers. This post explores the cryptographic challenges and promising research paths toward building new, quantum-resistant credentials from the ground up.
Online outages: Q3 2025 Internet disruption summary
In Q3 2025, global Internet disruptions were caused by everything from government shutdowns to stray bullets and earthquakes. This report analyzes the traffic data behind these outages to show their real-world impact on connectivity.
A framework for measuring Internet resilience
We present a data-driven framework to quantify cross-layer Internet resilience. We also share a list of measurements with which to quantify facets of Internet resilience for geographical areas.
Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere.
Announcing the 2025 GitHub Partner Award winners 🎉
GitHub celebrates its 2025 Partner Award winners, honoring global, regional, and technology partners for driving innovation, collaboration, and impact across the developer ecosystem.
Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure: Safety Without Disruption
Last year, I wrote a blog post titled Advancing Our Chef Infrastructure, where we explored the evolution of our Chef infrastructure over the years. We talked about the shift from a single Chef stack to a multi-stack model, and the challenges that came with it – from updating how we handle cookbook uploads to navigating…
How to Fix Any Bug
The joys of vibecoding.
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025
Update regarding Vercel service disruption on October 20, 2025. Read the summary of impact, timeline, root cause, and steps we’re taking to improve reliability.
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Load Balancing Monitor Groups: Multi-Service Health Checks for Resilient Applications
Cloudflare Load Balancing now supports Monitor Groups, allowing you to combine multiple health monitors into a single, logical assessment. Create sophisticated health checks for complex applications, define critical dependencies, and make smarter failover decisions.
How to navigate GitHub Universe (or any tech conference) if you’re an introvert
If alone time is your love language—don’t worry, it’s ours too—you can still attend, learn from, and enjoy big events like GitHub Universe. Here are some practical tips on how.
Webinar: Cross-Platform Auditing
Introducing stablecoin payments for subscriptions
As businesses expand globally, stablecoins can help them reach a broader international audience more cost-effectively. Now we’re extending these benefits to subscription-based businesses by launching recurring payments with stablecoins.
We Completely Missed width/height: stretch
The TL;DR is that stretch does the same thing as declaring 100%, but ignores padding when looking at the available space.
Notes on switching to Helix from vim
20 Years of Git, 2 days at GitHub HQ: Git Merge 2025 highlights 🎉
Git Merge 2025 celebrated 20 years of Git with talks, collaboration, and community. Catch the highlights and recordings.
How we use Lakera Guard to secure our LLMs
With its robust capabilities, Lakera Guard helps us secure and protect user data, and uphold the reliability and trustworthiness of our intelligent features.
How we brought multimedia search to Dropbox Dash
Our multimedia retrieval features allow users to find images, video, and audio just as easily as they find documents.
Where It's at://
From handles to hosting.
Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions
On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services. It follows regional shutdowns that began several weeks prior, ostensibly to prevent “immoral activities”.
Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Introducing Open Issuance from Bridge: A new platform to launch your own stablecoin
Open Issuance is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits, and earn rewards from reserves.
All our product updates from Stripe Tour New York
We announced new agentic commerce capabilities, modular infrastructure for all parts of the crypto stack, including the ability for you to collect subscription payments using stablecoins, and a lot more.
Introducing new regional Internet traffic and Certificate Transparency insights on Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare Radar offers two new features: regional Internet traffic visibility for a more local perspective on trends and disruptions, and a new dashboard bringing insights into Certificate Transparency, the ecosystem which ensures that all website certificates are publicly visible & auditable.
Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer
We reduced Cloudflare Workers cold starts by 10x by optimistically routing to servers with already-loaded Workers. Learn how we did it here.
How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach
Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.
Open Social
The protocol is the API.
A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform. This has been a major initiative for us, and we are excited to share the progress we've made.
Announcing the Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, and query your data directly on Cloudflare
The Cloudflare Data Platform, launching today, is a fully-managed suite of products for ingesting, transforming, storing, and querying analytical data, built on Apache Iceberg and R2 storage.
Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone
Cloudflare is making every feature available to any customer.
Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy
Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.
Securing today for the quantum future: WARP client now supports post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
To prepare for a future where powerful quantum computers come online, we've upgraded our WARP client with post-quantum cryptography. This protects both consumers and enterprises from adversaries that harvest Internet traffic now and then decrypt it in the future using powerful quantum computers.
A simpler path to a safer Internet: an update to our CSAM scanning tool
Cloudflare has made it even easier to enable our free child safety tooling for all customers.
Video Streaming With the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices
Today, Meta, Vodafone, and Google released a white paper, “Video Streaming with the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices,” detailing the benefits of the AV1 codec, an advanced video compression technique, to enhance the streaming video experience on mobile devices. The white paper recommends that: Vendors of core processors (SoCs) should evaluate the adoption of […]
High-growth companies stand out with flexible pricing
Our recent survey of 2,000+ global business leaders showed that the fastest-growing companies are approaching pricing differently than their peers. Here are some of the strategies behind their success.
Launching the x402 Foundation with Coinbase, and support for x402 transactions
Cloudflare is partnering with Coinbase to create the x402 Foundation and adding x402 support to the Agents SDK & MCP Servers.
Why Cloudflare, Netlify, and Webflow are collaborating to support Open Source tools like Astro and TanStack
Today, Cloudflare is proud to announce support for two cornerstone frameworks in the modern web ecosystem: we’re partnering with Webflow to sponsor Astro, and with Netlify to sponsor TanStack.
Help Build the Future: Announcing Cloudflare’s Goal to Hire 1,111 Interns in 2026
We are incredibly excited to announce our most ambitious intern program yet: Cloudflare aims to hire as many as 1,111 interns over the course of 2026.
Introducing free access to Cloudflare developer features for students
Students in the United States over the age of 18 with a .edu email can now get one year of free access to Cloudflare developer features. Build, experiment, and launch projects with production-grade tools, plus connect with peers in our student developer community.
Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet and what has not.
Connect and secure any private or public app by hostname, not IP — free for everyone in Cloudflare One
Tired of IP Lists? Securely connect private networks to any app by its hostname, not its IP address. This powerful routing is now built into Cloudflare Tunnel and is free for all Cloudflare One customers, simplifying your Zero Trust journey.
What you need to know about vibe coding
Vibe coding is revolutionizing how we work. English is now the fastest growing programming language. Our state of vibe coding report outlines what you need to know.
Free association: Production designer Jeremy Hindle on building Severance
After the Severance Emmy win, designer Jeremy Hindle traces the ideas and images that shaped Lumon’s uncanny world.
Behind the Streams: Building a Reliable Cloud Live Streaming Pipeline for Netflix. Part 2.
By Allison Deal, Cyril Concolato, Flavio Ribeiro, Hunter Ford, Mariana Afonso, Thomas Symborski, Xiaomei Liu
Sometimes you want to skip that CGI Status header
Helly Hansen migrated to Vercel and drove 80% Black Friday growth
What Can We Actually Do With corner-shape?
When I first started messing around with code, rounded corners required five background images or an image sprite likely created in Photoshop, so when
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Recreating the US/* time zone situation
Your guide to GitHub Universe 2025: The schedule just launched!
Create your own agenda of favorites, sign up for one-on-on mentoring sessions, and register if you haven’t already. We’ll see you there!