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In December 2023, a minor miracle happened: async fn in traits shipped. As of Rust 1.39, we already had free-standing async functions: pub async fn read_hosts () -> eyre :: Result < Vec < u8 >> { // etc. } …and async functions in impl blocks: impl HostReader { pub async fn read_hosts ( & self ) -> eyre :: Result < Vec < u8 >> { // etc. } } But we did not have async functions in traits:
How I used Workers AI to translate Cloudflare Stream’s auto-generated captions and what I learned along the way.
From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms, drawing insights from the previous holiday season.
In this blog posting we reflect on our team's growth this year and which topics we have planned for 2025, e.g. teambuilding.
In 2024, as elections took place across over 60 countries, the Internet became both a battleground for cyberattacks and a vital platform for democratic engagement.
Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc.
2024 has been one of the greatest years for CSS: cross-document view transitions, scroll-driven animations, anchor positioning, animate to height: auto, and
We are excited to introduce the new CodeQL Community Packs, a comprehensive set of queries and models designed to enhance your code analysis capabilities. These packs are tailored to augment…
Design leaders are expected to deliver the impossible. Instead of trying, we need to redefine our role from implementor to enabler.
Want Claude to interact with your app directly? Build an MCP server on Workers. That will enable you to connect your service directly, allowing Claude to understand and run tasks on your behalf.
Bring ChatGPT to your next video meeting with Cloudflare Calls.
An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work.
The December 17 release of OpenAI’s o1 model is now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models, bringing advanced coding capabilities to your workflows.
As threats evolve, SOC teams must adapt their operations. With Cloudflare’s holistic approach to managing user-based risk, SOC teams can operate more efficiently and reduce the likelihood of a breach.
CYBERTEC offers a broad range of online training. From PostgreSQL beginner to advanced levels, as well as Data Science or Spatial Data:
Learn how GitHub Artifact Attestations can enhance your build security and help your organization achieve SLSA Level 3. This post breaks down the basics of SLSA, explains the importance of artifact attestations, and provides a step-by-step guide to securing your build process.
We’re open sourcing Annotated Logger, a Python package that helps make logs searchable with consistent metadata.
We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is important, explain the rationale for Glean’s design, and run through some of the ways we’re using Glean to supercharge our developer tooling at […]
Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well past the halfway point and still going. We’re sharing some of the tradeoffs we’ve made to support automating our transition to Kotlin, seemingly simple […]
How did the Threads iOS team maintain the app’s performance during its incredible growth? Here’s how Meta’s Threads team thinks about performance, including the key metrics we monitor to keep the app healthy. We’re also diving into some case studies that impact publish reliability and navigation latency. When Meta launched Threads in 2023, it became […]
In the third and final installment in our three-part series, we examine the most important questions for the future of real-time payments: will they ever take off in the US and the UK, and will they emerge as a truly global payment method?
We built Hive, our general compute platform, after outgrowing off-the-shelf solutions. See how it's now powering secure connections to private networks, cutting initialization from 90s to 5s and improving build speeds by 30%.
In this blog posting Pavlo Golub will tell you more about his trip to the PGDay Napoli on the 5th of December.
