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Every four years, the World Cup becomes the largest planned stress test of our infrastructure. This year it also set an all-time record! There are a few moments throughout the year, like New Years Eve, that really let us see the collective impact of everything we’ve built — but none are bigger than the quadrennial [...] Read More... The post 2026 World Cup: Breaking Records, Spiky Charts and Relia
While adding MySQL support to Hyperdrive, we found a subtle protocol bug when caching query results. Here is how we tracked down a 0.001% rate error and made Hyperdrive MySQL generally available.
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
In September, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made.
A deep dive into how D1 architected its control plane to scale and manage millions of databases, while keeping data plane query operations at the edge. We share guiding principles on how to build on the Developer Platform effectively.
Our strategies to optimize our data pipeline throughput without compromising data quality.
This blog talks about CUDA and PostgreSQL, twins from different world, and how they share a similar mechanism. This is a thought blog, and you can read to know more.
