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Frontend — Introducing Custom Domains for Workers

Introducing Custom Domains for Workers

Custom Domains are now available for your Workers. Hook up a Worker to any domain you own, and Cloudflare will handle making DNS records and issuing certificates on your behalf

KKabirKabir·May 12, 2022Frontend
Engineering — Introducing Workers Analytics Engine

Introducing Workers Analytics Engine

Workers Analytics Engine is a new way to get telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers. Workers Analytics Engine provides time series analytics built for the serverless era

JJplJpl·May 12, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Introducing Pages Plugins

Introducing Pages Plugins

Introducing Pages Plugins – reusable and customizable chunks of runtime code that can be incorporated anywhere within your Pages application. Try one of the officially supported Plugins from our partners or build your own

NGNevi, Greg BrimbleNevi, Greg Brimble·May 12, 2022Engineering
Performance — How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks — Smashing Magazine

How To Use Google CrUX To Analyze And Compare The Performance Of JS Frameworks — Smashing Magazine

Google collects performance information from millions of opted-in Chrome browsers around the world and uses this information as a performance ranking factor for its search engine. But it also makes this information freely available so that anyone can use it to check the real-world performance of individual websites. Even more significantly, it’s possible to segment this data according to the techn

DSDan ShappirDan Shappir·May 12, 2022Performance
SRE & Ops — Logs on R2: slash your logging costs

Logs on R2: slash your logging costs

You shouldn’t have to make trade-offs between keeping logs that you need and managing tight budgets. R2’s low costs makes this decision easier and now you can use Logpush to store logs on R2.

TTanushreeTanushree·May 11, 2022SRE & Ops
Engineering — Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition

Open Source Monthly – May 2022 Edition

Introduction Open Sauced, GitHub’s Explore page, Hacktoberfest, and First Timers Only help folks discover open source projects. This monthly series–Open Source Monthly—will add to these efforts by helping: First-time contributors…

RSRizel ScarlettRizel Scarlett·May 11, 2022Engineering
SRE & Ops — Meta Open Source is transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation

Meta Open Source is transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation

Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation. With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest is the most used testing framework in the JavaScript ecosystem and is used by companies of all sizes, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Stripe. We believe […]

CWChris Wiltz·May 11, 2022SRE & Ops