974 articles on Performance.
See how Fluid combines server efficiency and serverless flexibility by reusing compute before creating new resources, reducing cold starts, and running in unconstrained environments while staying secure and fast. Cut compute costs by up to 85%.
In January, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Optimizing web performance means looking beyond surface-level metrics. Time to First Byte (TTFB) is crucial, but improving it requires more than tweaking server response time. Matt Zeunert breaks down what TTFB is, what causes its poor score, and why reducing server response time alone isn’t enough for optimization and often won’t be the most impactful change you can make to your website.
We've optimized how ISR cache updates are managed on Vercel, making them faster and more cost-efficient.
We created a usage-based billing system with ultrahigh throughput; reliable, real-time events processing; and support for complex pricing models. Doing so required reimagining how to build a highly scaled, highly reliable event streaming platform.
With our slice monitoring program, we use machine learning to spot small pockets of performance declines amid the sea of global payments.
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve efficiency and utilization across our fleet. Using Strobelight, we’ve seen significant efficiency wins, including one that has resulted in an estimated 15,000 servers’ worth of annual capacity savings. Strobe
Shouldn’t there be a way to keep your apps or project data private and improve performance by reducing server latency? This is what on-device AI is designed to solve. It handles AI processing locally, right on your device, without connecting to the internet and sending data to the cloud. In this article, Joas Pambou explains what on-device AI is, why it’s important, the tools to build this type of
In December, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
I wrote a post for Smashing Magazine that was published today about this thing that Chrome and Safari have called "Tight Mode" and how it impacts page
We know that browsers do all sorts of different things under the hood. One of those things is the way they not only *fetch* resources like images and scripts from the server but how they [prioritize those resources](https://www.debugbear.com/blog/request-priorities?utm_campaign=sm-7). Chrome and Safari have implemented a “Tight Mode” that constrains which resources are loaded and in what order, bu
Product drops and sales are a great way to increase revenue, but these events can result in traffic spikes that affect a site’s availability and performance. To prevent website crashes, you’ll have to make sure that the sites you design can handle large numbers of server requests at once. Let’s discuss how!
In November, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Design tokens are design decisions as data and serve as a single source of truth for design and engineering. Utilizing deployment pipelines, they enable automated code generation across platforms, allowing for faster updates and improved consistency in design. Organizing tokens in layers—progressing from available options to tokens that capture how they are applied—ensures scalability and a better
See what we've learned from hundreds of real-world audits—what to look for and what you can do to improve your applications.
What are Slack Audit Logs? Like many Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, Slack provides audit logs to Enterprise Grid customers that record when entities take an action on the platform. For example, when a user logs in, when a user updates their profile, when an app downloads a file, etc. The actual list of…
The Performance Engineering team at GitHub assessed how CPU performance degrades as utilization increases and how this relates to capacity.
Announcing the acquisition of Grep to further our mission of helping developers work and ship faster.
In October, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Feeling good with your Lighthouse score of 100%? You should! But you should also know that you’re only looking at part of the performance picture. Learn how Lighthouse scores are measured differently than other tools, the impact that has on measuring performance metrics, and why you need real-user monitoring for a complete picture.
Post-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network.
Every year for Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM), we put together a real-time visualization of purchases made through Shopify-powered merchants worldwide. This year we're cooking up something big, and in anticipation we wanted to show you how we built the globe last year. Video of BFCM 2023 Globe Besides going for better visuals, a big focus was performance. We've put together an interactive deep d
Learn how we built Cloudflare Queues using our own Developer Platform and how it evolved to a geographically-distributed, horizontally-scalable architecture built on Durable Objects. Our new architecture supports over 10x more throughput and over 3x lower latency compared to the previous version.
Hono is a web framework that is fast, lightweight, and built using the Web Standards API. Hear the story of Hono by the creator of Hono.
Learn how eval-driven development helps you build better AI faster. Discover a new testing paradigm for AI-native development and unlock continuous improvement.
Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count and higher CPU frequency, as well as achieving a significant boost in performance with larger L3 cache per core.
This article describes the problem of endless trigger recursion in PostgreSQL and shows how to deal with it and get good performance.
With special thanks to our stunning colleagues Amer Ather, Itay Dafna, Luca Pozzi, Matheus Leão, and Ye Ji. At Netflix, the Analytics and Developer Experience organization, part of the Data Platform…
Link’s newest feature, Instant Bank Payments, is priced at 2.6% + 30¢ per successful charge (a discount to cards), allowing you to benefit from the cost savings of bank payments while getting the speed of card transactions.
Our months-long investigation into slow search speeds led to a solution that not only improved performance but also set the foundation for future scale.
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Great thermal solutions play a crucial role in hardware reliability and performance. Gen 12 servers have implemented an exhaustive thermal analysis to ensure optimal operations within a wide variety of temperature conditions and use cases. By implementing new design and control features for improved power efficiency on the compute nodes we also enabled the support of powerful accelerators to serve
To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. This includes new capabilities, like running evals with AI Gateway, beta products like Queues and Vectorize graduating to GA, massive speed improvements to KV and Workers AI, pricing simplifications, and bringing key features from Pages into Workers.
Today, we’re announcing up to 3x faster KV hot reads, with all KV operations faster by up to 20ms. And we want to pull back the curtain and show you how we did it.
With a new generation of data center accelerator hardware and using optimization techniques such as KV cache compression and speculative decoding, we’ve made large language model (LLM) inference lightning-fast on the Cloudflare Workers AI platform.
Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives. In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performance has changed since our last post in March 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network perfor
Explore how Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) enhances your caching strategy. Learn its benefits, implementation across frameworks, and real-world applications. Optimize performance with this hybrid approach to dynamic content delivery.
In August, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Explore how Arm’s optimized performance and cost-efficient architecture, coupled with PyTorch, can enhance machine learning operations, from model training to deployment and learn how to leverage CI/CD for machine learning workflows, while reducing time, cost, and errors in the process.
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how he wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics to automatically generate and post a top ten page views report to Slack, making it incredibly easy to track page performance and share insights with your team.
You ever find yourself in bumper-to-bumper traffic? I did this morning on the way to work (read: whatever cafe I fancy). There's a pattern to it, right? Stop,
Using Git in the CLI can improve your development speed and power. Here are our top eight commands for using GitHub via your command line.
Ever felt pressure to speed up your design process? Here’s how to address unrealistic expectations and foster a shared understanding with stakeholders, ensuring everyone is aligned on the path to a successful delivery. Part of [Smart Interface Design Patterns](https://smart-interface-design-patterns.com) by yours truly.
In July, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
In this two-part series, Andrii Zhdan outlines common challenges faced at the start of a design career and offers advice to smooth your journey based on insights from his experience hiring designers. In Part 2, Andrii speaks about how you can grow faster in your brand-new junior UX job.
We have a lot of dashboards at Spotify. Our Insight teams and analysts from across the company are constantly whipping up new dashboards for stakeholders and themselves, helping answer those big data-driven questions every day. These dashboards tackle everything from frequently used key metrics to exploratory insights and operational reports. It’s clear to us: dashboards help us move faster and st
In this post, we discuss performance optimizations we've implemented for our WAF ML product. We'll guide you through code examples, benchmarks, and we'll share the impressive latency reduction numbers
Demystify Next.js rendering strategies: SSG, SSR, CSR, ISR, and PPR. Optimize your web apps for performance, SEO, and user experience. Learn when and how to use each approach with real-world examples and practical tips for modern web development.
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Slack Data Engineering recently underwent data workload migration from AWS EMR 5 (Spark 2/Hive 2 processing engine) to EMR 6 (Spark 3 processing engine). In this blog, we will share our migration journey, challenges, and the performance gains we observed in the process. This blog aims to assist Data Engineers, Data Infrastructure Engineers, and Product…
Introducing a new way to do function calling in Workers AI by running function code alongside your inference. Plus, a new @cloudflare/ai-utils package to make getting started as simple as possible
CSS Meditation #7: Nobody is perf-ect.
In May, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
