Hyperdrive: making databases feel like they’re global
Hyperdrive makes accessing your existing databases from Cloudflare Workers, wherever they are running, hyper fast
Race ahead with Cloudflare Pages build caching
Unleash the fast & furious in your builds with Cloudflare Pages' build caching. Reduce build times by caching previously computed project components. Now in Beta for select frameworks and package managers.
New Workers pricing — never pay to wait on I/O again
Announcing new pricing for Cloudflare Workers, where you are billed based on CPU time, and never for the idle time that your Worker spends waiting on network requests and other I/O.
Cloudflare Fonts: enhancing website font privacy and speed
Introducing Cloudflare Fonts. Enhance privacy and performance for websites using Google Fonts by loading fonts from their own origin. Improve user privacy, enhance site performance, and simplify the process. No need for code changes. Simply enable Cloudflare Fonts in your dashboard
Cloudflare Stream Low-Latency HLS support now in Open Beta
Cloudflare Stream’s LL-HLS support enters open beta today. You can deliver video to your audience faster, reducing the latency a viewer may experience on their player to as little as 3 seconds
GitHub Availability Report: August 2023
In August, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Monitoring PostgreSQL replication
How to monitor replication lag in PostgreSQL? What is replication lag? And how to best go about monitoring PostgreSQL replication in general?
Citus: Sharding your first table
Here’s how to shard a table from scratch with Citus. Scale PostgreSQL DBs using a sharding approach. How to run a Citus Docker container.
Using Zig in our incremental Turborepo migration from Go to Rust
In this Turborepo migration update, we explore the innovative strategies, such as the "Go Sandwich" approach and leveraging Zig's cross-compilation, guiding our gradual shift from Go to Rust, aiming to boost performance without sacrificing stability.
Optimize your GitHub Codespaces costs with upgraded virtual machines
See how much more you can get out of GitHub Codespaces by taking advantage of the improved processing power and increased headroom in the next generation of virtual machines.
Keeping Figma fast
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot
Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request.
Deploying at the speed of on-demand streaming
Dev Mode fast follows: 200+ new features and fixes
After two months of open beta, we’ve shipped more than 200 of the most-wanted updates to our Dev Mode workspace.
Developing at the speed of sound: How Sonos amplified their DevEx
Modern Methods For Improving Drupal’s Largest Contentful Paint Core Web Vital — Smashing Magazine
The background image used in the hero component, which is slow to load, is a very common problem with any component that uses a large image file as a background image. In this article, Mike Herchel walks you through how to tackle this common performance issue using modern techniques.
Konabos empowers an industry giant to deploy 50% faster with a composable stack
Running A Page Speed Test: Monitoring vs. Measuring — Smashing Magazine
What does your performance “stack” look like? There are all kinds of tools available for measuring page speed, but what data and assumptions do they use to measure performance? And speaking of *measuring* performance, there’s quite a difference between that and *monitoring* performance. Let’s dig in!
GitHub Availability Report: July 2023
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Next.js Commerce: A headless Shopify ecommerce template built with the App Router
A high-performance ecommerce template, including support for BigCommerce, Medusa, Saleor, Shopify, and Swell.
How We Optimized Performance To Serve A Global Audience — Smashing Magazine
Liran Cohen and the team at Bookaway, a travel booking service, dramatically improved their site’s performance by auditing Core Web Vitals. In this article, Liran shares his team’s process for auditing and monitoring Web Vitals and the effort it took to dramatically improve Bookaway’s performance — and the benefits that came with it.
How we build containerized services at GitHub using GitHub
Learn about how we build containerized services that power microservices on the GitHub.com platform and many internal tools.
Bulk load performance in PostgreSQL
Compare the performance of bulk load methods in PostgreSQL. Get recommendations for parameter settings to improve performance even more.
Experimentation at Spotify: Three Lessons for Maximizing Impact in Innovation
As companies mature, it’s easy to believe that the core experience and most user needs have been resolved, and all that’s left to work toward are the marginal benefits, the cherries on top. Cherries on top might add delight and panache, but they rarely cause fundamental shifts in performance and success. And as a business, even a mature one, we’re looking for the innovations that tangibly impact t
Understanding React Server Components
React Server Components are changing the fundamental paradigms of React. Learn how Next.js handles the complexities and improves the performance of your applications.
Engineering a site at the speed of breaking news
Shopify’s platform is the Web platform - Shopify
Remix is now the recommended way to build Admin apps on Shopify. With Remix, you get a best-in-class developer experience while ensuring exceptional out-of-the-box performance for your app. Remix embraces the web platform and web standards, allowing web developers to use more of their existing knowledge and skills.
Killing performance with PostgreSQL partitioning
Partitioning is not without risk. It might help to handle large quantities of data, but it can also have downsides - learn how to it.
Introducing React Tweet
Embed tweets into your React application without sacrificing performance.
How React 18 Improves Application Performance
Learn how React 18's concurrent features like Transitions, Suspense, and React Server Components improve application performance.
Writing CSS In 2023: Is It Any Different Than A Few Years Ago? — Smashing Magazine
CSS is evolving faster than ever. With all of the new features that are now available — and forthcoming — since we got Flexbox and Grid years ago, the way we write CSS is evolving, too. In this article, Geoff Graham shares which features have had the most influence on his current approaches to CSS, as well as those that have not (at least yet).
GitHub Availability Report: June 2023
In June, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. June 7 16:11 UTC (lasting 2 hours 28 minutes) On June 7 at 16:11 UTC, GitHub…
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 is now generally available. Organizations can now take advantage of more features that enable deeper collaboration, greater observability and faster workflows.
Vercel Edge Config + LaunchDarkly: Low latency, global feature flags to your favorite frontend framework
We're excited to announce a new LaunchDarkly integration to bring low latency, global feature flags to your favorite frontend framework.
Recapping Speed Week 2023
Recapping all the announcements made during Speed Week 2023
Introducing the Cloudflare Radar Internet Quality Page
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results
Speeding up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway
Today we’re announcing Ricochet for API Gateway, the easiest way for Cloudflare customers to achieve faster API responses through automatic, intelligent API response caching
Understanding end user-connectivity and performance with Digital Experience Monitoring, now available in beta
DEX allows administrators to monitor their WARP Deployment and create predefined application tests. Features include live team & device analytics, server and traceroute tests, Synthetic Application Monitoring, and Fleet Status for real-time insights on WARP deployment
Network performance update: Speed Week 2023
In this post we are going to share the most recent updates, and tell you about our tools and processes that we use to monitor and improve our network performance.
How we think about Zero Trust Performance
In this blog, we’re going to talk about why end-to-end performance is the most important thing to look at, why other methods like proxy latency and decrypted latency SLAs are insufficient for performance evaluations, and how you can measure your Zero Trust performance like we do
Benchmarking dashboard performance
The Cloudflare dashboard is a single page application that houses all of the UI for our wide portfolio of existing products, as well as the new features we're releasing every day
Spotlight on Zero Trust: we're fastest and here's the proof
Cloudflare is the fastest Secure Web Gateway in 42% of testing scenarios, the most of any provider. Cloudflare is 46% faster than Zscaler, 56% faster than Netskope, and 10% faster than Palo Alto for ZTNA, and 64% faster than Zscaler for RBI scenarios
How Kinsta used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache hit rates by 56%
Kinsta delivers tailored cloud hosting solutions to over 26,000 companies across 128 countries. Learn how they used Workers and Workers KV to improve cache performance and customer performance
Crafting a better, faster code view
The new GitHub Code View brings users many new features to improve the code reading and exploration experiences, and we overcame a number of unique technical hurdles in order to deliver those features without compromising performance.
Faster website, more customers: Cloudflare Observatory can help your business grow
Today, we are thrilled to unveil the Cloudflare Observatory, our new and enhanced Speed Tab. Cloudflare customers now have access to a suite of powerful tools that simplify performance monitoring and offer enhanced product recommendations
Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is not a good way to measure your websites performance. In this blog we’ll cover what TTFB is a good indicator of, what it's not great for, and what you should be using instead
Introducing Timing Insights: new performance metrics via our GraphQL API
If you care about the performance of your website or APIs, it’s critical to understand why things are slow. Today we're introducing new analytics tools to help you understand what is contributing to "Time to First Byte" (TTFB) of Cloudflare and your origin
INP. Get ready for the new Core Web Vital
On May 10, 2023, Google announced that INP will replace FID in the Core Web Vitals in March 2024. The Core Web Vitals play a role in the Google Search algorithm. So website owners who care about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) should prepare for the change
How to use Cloudflare Observatory for performance experiments
Introducing Cloudflare's Performance Experiments in Observatory: Safely test code, improve website speed, and minimize risk
Argo Smart Routing for UDP: speeding up gaming, real-time communications and more
Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%
Smart Hints make code-free performance simple
We’re excited to announce we’re making Early Hints and Fetch Priorities automatic using the power of Cloudflare’s network
Introducing Low-Latency HLS Support for Cloudflare Stream
Broadcast live to websites and applications with less than 10 second latency with Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LL-HLS), now in beta with Cloudflare Stream
Welcome to Speed Week 2023
This week we will help you measure what matters. We’ll help you gain insight into your performance, from Zero Trust and API’s to websites and applications. And finally we’ll help you get faster. Quickly
GitHub Availability Report: May 2023
In May, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three April incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Reduce latency and increase cache hits with Regional Tiered Cache
Regional Tiered Cache provides an additional layer of caching for Enterprise customers who have a global traffic footprint and want to serve content faster by avoiding network latency when there is a cache miss in a lower-tier, resulting in an upper-tier fetch in a data center located far away
Experimenting at Scale, the Spotify Home Way
In the fast-paced world of streaming, personalization plays a vital role in enhancing user experiences. At Spotify, our Home serves as a personalized surface where users retrieve familiar content and discover new content tailored to their preferences. We are constantly trying to optimize the Home experience to provide more value to our users; however, doing so can be tricky.
Unbounded memory usage by TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems. Recently, we noticed that some of our TCP sessions were allocating more memory than expected. This blog post describes in detail the root cause of the problem and shows the test results of a solution
The Impact Of Agile Methodologies On Code Quality — Smashing Magazine
Say goodbye to traditional workflows and embrace Agile to unlock the power of high-quality code. Discover how Agile methodologies promote simplicity, modularization, readability, and continuous improvement, resulting in faster turnaround times, more responsive development processes, and ultimately, the creation of high-quality software that meets customer needs.
Cloudflare Queues: messages at your speed with consumer concurrency and explicit acknowledgement
Queues is faster than ever before! Now queues will automatically scale up your consumers, clearing out backlogs in a flash. Explicit Acknowledgement allows developers to acknowledge or retry individual messages in a batch, preventing work from being repeated.
Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2
For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
