Figma rendering: Powered by WebGPU
We’ve updated our renderer to use WebGPU, unlocking new performance optimization opportunities. Here’s how we did it.
How To Minimize The Environmental Impact Of Your Website — Smashing Magazine
As responsible digital professionals, we are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impact of our work and need to find effective and pragmatic ways to reduce it. James Chudley shares a new decarbonising approach that will help you to minimise the environmental impact of your website, benefiting people, profit, purpose, performance, and the planet.
Scale to one: How Fluid solves cold starts
Learn how Vercel solves serverless cold starts with scale to one, Fluid compute, predictive scaling, and caching to keep functions warm and fast.
The RUM Diaries: enabling Web Analytics by default
We’re excited to announce the start of a major upgrade to Cloudflare’s performance analytics suite: Web Analytics as part of our real user monitoring (RUM) tools will soon be combined with network-level insights to help you pinpoint performance issues anywhere on a packet’s journey — from a visitor’s browser, through Cloudflare’s network, to your origin.
The Cost of TDE and Checksums in PGEE
This blog is a quick summary of the recent benchmark testing done with PostgresSQL for TDE. Please check in.
GitHub Availability Report: August 2025
In August, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Can Collations Be Used Over citext?
Benchmarking PostgreSQL collations vs citext for case-insensitive columns: can custom collations replace citext with better performance?
How to harness skills that AI can’t automate
With more teams moving faster than ever, the real differentiator is craft—the curiosity, intuition, taste, and intention behind every detail.
Cloudflare is the best place to build realtime voice agents
We're at a critical inflection point where conversational AI is moving from experimental demos to production-ready systems. If you’re already a developer in the real-time AI ecosystem, we want to build the best building blocks for you to get the lowest latency at a global scale.
Troubleshooting network connectivity and performance with Cloudflare AI
Troubleshoot network connectivity issues by using Cloudflare AI-Power to quickly self diagnose and resolve WARP client and network issues.
How we built the most efficient inference engine for Cloudflare’s network
Existing LLM serving engines aren’t efficient enough when deployed across a globally distributed network, so we built our own, in Rust. Infire is an LLM inference engine that employs a range of techniques to maximize resource utilization, allowing us to serve AI models more efficiently and with better performance for Cloudflare workloads.
State-of-the-art image generation Leonardo models and text-to-speech Deepgram models now available in Workers AI
We're expanding Workers AI with new partner models from Leonardo.Ai and Deepgram. Start using state-of-the-art image generation models from Leonardo (Phoenix, Lucid Origin) and real-time TTS and STT models from Deepgram (Nova 3, Aura 1). Build full-stack, low-latency AI applications, all hosted on Cloudflare's global network.
Enabling Kotlin incremental compilation on Buck2
The Kotlin incremental compiler has been a true gem for developers chasing faster compilation since its introduction in build tools. Now, we’re excited to bring its benefits to Buck2 – Meta’s build system – to unlock even more speed and efficiency for Kotlin developers. Unlike a traditional compiler that recompiles an entire module every time, […]
MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack
For years, developers have been stitching together multiple protocols for real-time media, trading latency for scale and simplicity. Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale.
Beyond The Hype: What AI Can Really Do For Product Design — Smashing Magazine
AI tools are improving fast, but it’s still not clear how they fit into a real product design workflow. Nikita Samutin walks through four core stages — from analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design — to show where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples.
Summer fasterthanlime update
There are news! Cool Bear's hot tip TL;DR: If you’re a patron or sponsor, check your Profile page to get detailed explainers of every perk. You’ll need to log in. Duh. Here are all the changes I’m implementing, summarized as a table: Before After 📚 Articles remain exclusive for 6 months Early access ( couple weeks ) for Silver tier 🎞️ No early access for video Video early access on Patreon and web
GitHub Availability Report: July 2025
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How Coxwave delivers GenAI value faster with Vercel
Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine
Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow, keeping everything in sync gets tricky fast. In this article, we’ll look at how smart tooling, combined with automation where it makes sense, can speed things up, reduce errors, and help your team focus on desig
Reducing double spend latency from 40 ms to < 1 ms on privacy proxy
We significantly sped up our privacy proxy service by fixing a 40ms delay in "double-spend" checks. The issue stemmed from how Nagle's algorithm and delayed ACKs interacted with a third-party dependency.
When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2
FlashList v2: A ground-up rewrite for React Native's New Architecture (2025) - Shopify
FlashList v2 is a complete rewrite, delivering faster load times, improved scrolling performance, and precise rendering without requiring item size estimates. It powers thousands of lists in the Shopify mobile app and is now production-ready.
Vercel and Solara6 partner to build better ecommerce experiences
Solara6 is partnering with us to help ecommerce brands ship faster and deploy with confidence. Through this partnership, ecommerce teams working with Solara6 can expect improved SEO, site speed, and reliability during peak traffic moments.
GitHub Availability Report: June 2025
In June, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Droip: The Modern Website Builder WordPress Needed — Smashing Magazine
Traditional page builders have shaped how we build WordPress sites for years. Let’s take a closer look at [Droip](https://droip.com/), a modern, no-code visual builder, and explore how it redefines the experience with cleaner performance, full design freedom, and zero plugin dependency.
Remixing Shopify's Admin: How We Made It 30% Faster and AI-Ready (2025) - Shopify
Learn how we just made Shopify's Admin 30% faster while setting it up for AI superpowers. Behind the scenes, we completely transformed how admin.shopify.com works—rebuilding a system that powers 67 million daily page views and merchants live inside to run their business.
A Better API for the Resize Observer
ResizeObserver, MutationObserver, and IntersectionObserver enhance performance over their predecessors. Zell discusses their API similarities, usage steps, refactoring strategies, and advantages with practical examples.
GitHub Availability Report: May 2025
In May, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust
I have long been at war against Rust compile times. Part of the solution for me was to buy my way into Apple Silicon dreamland, where builds are, like… faster. I remember every time I SSH into an x86_64 server, even the nice 64-core ones. And another part was, of course, to get dirty with Rust itself. I wrote Why is my Rust build so slow? , which goes in-depth into rust build performance, down to
Smashing Animations Part 4: Optimising SVGs — Smashing Magazine
What’s the best way to make your SVGs faster, simpler, and more manageable? In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke explains the process he relies on *to* prepare, optimise, and structure SVGs for animation and beyond.
Why Designers Get Stuck In The Details And How To Stop — Smashing Magazine
Designers love to craft, but polishing pixels before the problem is solved is a time-sink. This article pinpoints the five traps that lure us into premature detail — being afraid to show rough work, fixing symptoms instead of causes, solving the wrong problem, drowning in unactionable feedback, and plain fatigue — then hands you a four-step rescue plan to refocus on goals, ship faster, and keep yo
Introducing the v0 composite model family
Learn how v0's composite AI models combine RAG, frontier LLMs, and AutoFix to build accurate, up-to-date web app code with fewer errors and faster output.
Resilient Import Maps - Better Theme Development and Beyond (2025) - Shopify
Import maps are great for both performance and developer experience, but their original limitations made them hard to use, especially at Shopify’s scale. We stepped up and pushed changes across the HTML spec, Chromium and WebKit to fix these issues at the web platform level. Now, developers can interleave JavaScript modules and multiple import maps on their HTML pages without worrying about correc
Performance measurements… and the people who love them
Developers have a gut-felt understanding for performance, but that intuition breaks down when systems reach Cloudflare’s scale. We need the rigor of statisticians to understand latency’s impact on users. Here we discuss our work to communicate customer-centric measurements of latency in our network.
Using AI to optimize payments performance with the Payments Intelligence Suite
Last week at Stripe Sessions, we introduced our Payments Intelligence Suite, which uses AI to make hundreds of automated, real-time decisions to maximize your profits—with no effort required.
How Fern delivers 6M+ monthly views and 80% faster docs with Vercel
GitHub Availability Report: April 2025
In April, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Express yourself with Figma Draw
Figma Draw pairs faster, simpler vector editing with powerful tools for visual expression—so designers of all stripes can bring their vision to life without breaking focus.
Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native (2025) - Shopify
We built a framework that transforms WebViews in the Shopify app to feel native and solve performance and integration challenges without rebuilding for mobile.
How Edison is helping us build a faster, more powerful Dropbox on the web
Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Broccoli: Syncing faster by syncing less
Boosting Dropbox upload speed and improving Windows’ TCP stack
Increasing Magic Pocket write throughput by removing our SSD cache disks
Investigating the impact of HTTP3 on network latency for search
GitHub Availability Report: March 2025
In March, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Optimizing Our E2E Pipeline
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…
Migrating Grep from Create React App to Next.js
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.
Workers AI gets a speed boost, batch workload support, more LoRAs, new models, and a refreshed dashboard
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.
Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub
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.
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.
Meta Llama 4 now available on Workers AI
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct is now available on Workers AI: use this multimodal, Mixture of Experts AI model on Cloudflare's serverless AI platform to build next-gen AI applications. Build products that can understand images & text, accept large context, with high performance on model quality and inference latency.
Cloudflare’s commitment to CISA Secure-By-Design pledge: delivering new kernels, faster
Cloudflare’s commitment to the CISA pledge reflects our dedication to transparency and accountability to our customers. This blog post outlines how we deliver newly patched kernels across our infrastructure in order to keep Cloudflare secure.
Adaptive Video Streaming With Dash.js In React — Smashing Magazine
HTML `` is the de facto element we turn to for embedding video content, but it comes with constraints. For example, it downloads the video file linearly over HTTP, which leads to performance hiccups, especially for large videos consumed on slower connections. But with adaptive bitrate streaming, we can split the video into multiple segments at different bitrates and resolutions.
An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content
It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between web content produced by humans and web content produced by AI. In this post, we're going to look at a promising new approach to making AI content distinguishable as such without impacting the performance of the model.
Web Components Vs. Framework Components: What’s The Difference? — Smashing Magazine
Some critics question the agnostic nature of Web Components, with some even arguing that they are not real components. Gabriel Shoyomboa explores this topic in-depth, comparing Web Components and framework components, highlighting their strengths and trade-offs, and evaluating their performance.
GitHub Availability Report: February 2025
In February, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
How To Fix Largest Contentful Paint Issues With Subpart Analysis — Smashing Magazine
Struggling with slow Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)? Newly introduced by Google, LCP subparts help you pinpoint where page load delays come from. Now, in the Chrome UX Report, this data provides real visitor insights to speed up your site and boost rankings. Matt Zeunert unpacks what LCP subparts are, what they mean for your website speed, and how you can measure them.
The Case For Minimal WordPress Setups: A Contrarian View On Theme Frameworks — Smashing Magazine
Modern frameworks are supposed to help speed up development while providing modern tools and a developer-friendly workflow. In reality, Kevin Leary has found that they cause far more problems than they solve. This ultimately leads to the big question: why are modern theme frameworks so popular, and do they really benefit developers in the long run?
