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Engineering — Introducing Stripe’s new API release process

Introducing Stripe’s new API release process

Our new release cadence and versioning system combines twice-yearly major updates with monthly feature enhancements, giving you the predictability and clarity that you need to better plan your engineering cycles.

MGMichael GlukhovskyMichael Glukhovsky·October 1, 2024Engineering
Engineering — Reaffirming our commitment to free

Reaffirming our commitment to free

We want to make abundantly clear: our free plan is here to stay, and we reaffirmed that commitment this week with 15 releases across our product portfolio that make the Free plan even better.

CCloudflare·September 27, 2024Engineering
Engineering — Quick Hit #24

Quick Hit #24

Wired: "The combined weight of these legal cases threatens to crush the Internet Archive. The internet has entrusted its collective memory to this one

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·September 27, 2024Engineering
Distributed — Aggregating my distributed self

Aggregating my distributed self

Miriam Suzanne's in the middle of a redesign of her personal website. It began in August 2022. She's made an entire series out of the work that's worth your

GGGeoff GrahamGeoff Graham·September 27, 2024Distributed
Languages — How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

How To Manage Dangerous Actions In User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

One of the main laws that applies to almost everything in our lives, including building digital products, is Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Our goal is to prevent things from going wrong and, if they do, mitigate the consequences. In this article, Victor Ponamarev explores different strategies for preventing users from making mistakes.

VPVictor PonamariovVictor Ponamariov·September 27, 2024Languages
Performance — Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform

Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform

To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. This includes new capabilities, like running evals with AI Gateway, beta products like Queues and Vectorize graduating to GA, massive speed improvements to KV and Workers AI, pricing simplifications, and bringing key features from Pages into Workers.

TRTanushree, RohinTanushree, Rohin·September 26, 2024Performance
Databases — Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

Traditional cloud storage is inherently slow because it is accessed over a network and must synchronize many clients. But what if we could instead put your application code deep into the storage layer, such that your code runs where the data is stored? Durable Objects with SQLite do just that.

KVKenton VardaKenton Varda·September 26, 2024Databases
Databases — Cloudflare’s bigger, better, faster AI platform

Cloudflare’s bigger, better, faster AI platform

Whether you want the fastest inference at the edge, optimized AI workflows, or vector database-powered RAG, we’re excited to help you harness the full potential of AI and get started on building with Cloudflare.

MKMichelle, KathyMichelle, Kathy·September 26, 2024Databases
Security — ktls now under the rustls org

ktls now under the rustls org

What’s a ktls I started work on ktls and ktls-sys , a pair of crates exposing Kernel TLS offload to Rust, about two years ago . kTLS lets the kernel (and, in turn, any network interface that supports it) take care of encryption, framing, etc., for the entire duration of a TLS connection… as soon as you have a TLS connection. For the handshake itself (hellos, change cipher, encrypted extensions, ce

AWAmos WengerAmos Wenger·September 26, 2024Security
AI & ML — Boost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot

Boost your CLI skills with GitHub Copilot

Want to know how to take your terminal skills to the next level? Whether you’re starting out, or looking for more advanced commands, GitHub Copilot can help us explain and suggest the commands we are looking for.

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·September 26, 2024AI & ML