
In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time…

We migrated grep.app from Create React App to Next.js. We break down how we combined single-page app speed with React Server Component efficiency. 70% faster First Contentful Paint, 73% quicker network request completion, now searching 1M repos.

We’re announcing Workers VPC: a global private network that allows applications deployed on Cloudflare Workers to connect to your legacy cloud infrastructure. Now, you can unlock access to your existing APIs and data in external clouds and build global, modern, cross-cloud apps on Workers.
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Thomas Gauvin, Steve Welham·April 11, 2025Networking 
Explore how developers are using Cloudflare to scale AI workloads and streamline automation. Learn more about what our participants in Workers Launchpad Cohort #4 have built, and check out the latest startups participating in Cohort #5.
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Christopher Rotas·April 11, 2025AI & ML 
Learn about recent developments in Certificate Transparency (CT), and how we built a next-generation CT log on top of Cloudflare's Developer Platform.

We just made Workers AI inference faster with speculative decoding & prefix caching. Use our new batch inference for handling large request volumes seamlessly. Build tailored AI apps with more LoRA options. Lastly, new models and a refreshed dashboard round out this Developer Week update for Workers AI.

Cloudflare’s Startup Program offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform across 4 tiers: $5,000, $25,000, $100,000, and $250,000.
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Christopher Rotas, Melissa Kargiannakis·April 11, 2025Engineering 
We transitioned to Cloudflare Workflows to manage complex, multi-step processes more efficiently. This shift replaced our queues-based architecture in our National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting system with a structured, retryable workflow that’s easier to debug and maintain.

Cloudflare Containers are coming this June. Run new types of workloads on our network with an experience that is simple, scalable, global and deeply integrated with Workers.
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Mike Nomitch, Gabi Villalonga Simon·April 11, 2025Networking 
This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.

Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.

Everyone’s talking about MCP these days when it comes to large language models (LLMs)—here’s what you need to know.
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Cassidy Williams·April 11, 2025AI & ML 
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.

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 is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.

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.
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Justin Mazzola Paluska, Lambros Petrou·April 10, 2025Databases 
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.

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

A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.

Security should be native to your workflow, not a painful separate process.

What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
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Kent C. Dodds·April 10, 2025AI & ML 
“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.

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.

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.
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Zaid, Will Allen·April 9, 2025Frontend