What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it?
Everyone’s talking about MCP these days when it comes to large language models (LLMs)—here’s what you need to know.
Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues
We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x.
Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines
We’ve just shipped our new streaming ingestion service, Pipelines — and we’ve acquired Arroyo, enabling us to bring new SQL-based, stateful transformations to Pipelines and R2.
R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees
R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.
Sequential consistency without borders: How D1 implements global read replication
D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. In this post, we do a technical deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions.
Tailwind's @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature is better than described.
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts
If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that's a great place to wrap
Finding a forever home for FigPals
A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.
How we’re making security easier for the average developer
Security should be native to your workflow, not a painful separate process.
The next chapter: EpicAI.pro
What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
Gild Just One Lily — Smashing Magazine
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that builds trust. But first? You need a lily. Nail the fundamentals. Then, gild it carefully.
Testing the conversion impact of 50+ global payment methods
We have data that shows when at least one additional relevant payment method beyond cards is dynamically surfaced, businesses on average see a meaningful increase in conversion and revenue.
Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit
Announcing Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit, a complete toolkit for shipping real-time audio and video apps in days with SDKs for Kotlin, React Native, Swift, JavaScript, and Flutter.
Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow
Securely store, manage and deploy account level secrets to Cloudflare Workers through Cloudflare Secrets Store, available in beta – with role-based access control, audit logging and Wrangler support.
Introducing Workers Observability: logs, metrics, and queries – all in one place
We’ve improved Observability for Workers by announcing the General Availability of Workers Logs and the introduction of the Query Builder to help you investigate log events across all of your Workers.
CSS Carousels
Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.
That health is mental
Disclaimer : Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about how we feel. So. deep breath I’m okay, I think? Just a little restless. A bit of personal context For those keeping score, I went through major life events in 2023 — a divorce, a move, and the news that
How to request a change to a CVE record
Learn how to identify which CVE Numbering Authority is responsible for the record, how to contact them, and what to include with your suggestion.
React for Two Computers
Two things, one origin.
Introducing Chatbot Template
Chatbot is a free, open-source template, powered by Next.js and the AI SDK, that helps you build chatbot applications.
Your frontend, backend, and database — now in one Cloudflare Worker
You can now deploy static sites and full-stack applications on Cloudflare Workers – the primitives are all here. Framework support for React Router v7, Astro, Vue, and more are generally available today, as is the Cloudflare Vite plugin. Connect to Postgres and MySQL databases with Hyperdrive.
Skip the setup: deploy a Workers application in seconds
You can now add a Deploy to Cloudflare button to your repository’s README when building a Workers application, making it simple for other developers to set up and deploy your project!
Deploy your Next.js app to Cloudflare Workers with the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext
With the 1.0-beta release of the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext, you can host your Next.js 14 and 15 applications on Cloudflare Workers.
Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why we’re making it free
Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. We go deep into the details of what that looks like, in celebration of announcing its availability for Free Plan customers.
