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).
Improving customer experience in China using China Express
We use China Express to accelerate for performance and Workers to fall back to user through China Express for cost-effectiveness.
Vercel + Sanity: Innovating on a fast, collaborative Web with features like Visual Editing
Vercel and Sanity together deliver a composable, cloud-native stack with Visual Editing, ISR, and pre-built templates to future-proof your frontend without sacrificing content velocity or developer experience.
Smart Placement speeds up applications by moving code close to your backend — no config needed
Smart Placement automatically places your workloads in an optimal location that minimizes latency and speeds up your applications!
Cloudflare R2 and MosaicML enable training LLMs on any compute, anywhere in the world, with zero switching costs
Together, Cloudflare and MosaicML give customers the freedom to train LLMs on any compute, anywhere in the world, with zero switching costs. That means faster, cheaper training runs, and no vendor lock in.
Design Patterns Are A Better Way To Collaborate On Your Design System — Smashing Magazine
Every company and team has to have deep collaboration between engineering and design to get the value out of a design system (and not go nuts). Building design patterns first unblock people to work in parallel, keeps people synced up, and results in reusable modules that speed up your next project.
Introducing Constellation, bringing AI to the Cloudflare stack
Today, we're excited to welcome Constellation to the Cloudflare stack. Constellation allows you to run fast, low-latency inference tasks on pre-trained machine learning models natively on Workers
How To Boost Your Design Workflow With Setapp — Smashing Magazine
In this guide, we’ll explore efficient tools to save time and speed up your workflow. Focus on what you do best — designing high-quality work, and let these tools handle the rest!
Cloudflare is faster than Netskope and Zscaler across LATAM
With 47 data centers across Latin America and Caribbean, Cloudflare has the largest number of SASE Points of Presence across all vendors, meaning we can offer our Zero Trust services closer to the end user and reduce unwanted latency
GitHub Availability Report: April 2023
In April, we experienced four incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into three March incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
Improving Instant Payouts
Stripe is rolling out new tools that enable you to start, run, and manage an Instant Payouts program with a faster integration process, streamlined monetization, and no-code build options.
DDR4 memory organization and how it affects memory bandwidth
In this blog, we will study the concepts of memory rank and organization, and how memory rank and organization affect the memory bandwidth performance by reviewing some benchmarking test results
Making home Internet faster has little to do with “speed”
The speed of an Internet connection is more about decreasing real-world latency than adding underutilized bandwidth
EXPLAIN (GENERIC_PLAN): New in PostgreSQL 16
This article describes the EXPLAIN option GENERIC_PLAN introduced in PostgreSQL 16, including some examples. Learn about options syntax.
Building GitHub with Ruby and Rails
Since the beginning, GitHub.com has been a Ruby on Rails monolith. Today, the application is nearly two million lines of code and more than 1,000 engineers collaborate on it daily.…
Adventures in Garbage Collection: Improving GC Performance in our Massive Monolith - Shopify
At the beginning of this year, we ran several experiments aimed at reducing the latency impact of the Ruby garbage collector (GC) in Shopify's monolith. In this article, Jean talks about the changes we made to improve GC performance, and more importantly, how we got to these changes.
A/B Testing and Feature Flags with sub-millisecond performance
A globally distributed, ultra-low latency data store for configuration data, flags, and experiments.
GitHub Availability Report: March 2023
In March, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a February incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Codespaces.
Keeping sync fast with automated performance regression detection
Upgrading one of the oldest components in Cloudflare’s software stack
Engineers at Cloudflare have improved the release procedure of our largest edge proxy server. The improved process allows us to significantly decrease the amount of memory used during the version upgrade. As a result, we can deploy code faster and more reliably
Cloudflare’s commitment to the 2023 Summit for Democracy
Cloudflare is proud to participate in and contribute commitments to the 2023 Summit Summit for Democracy because we believe that everyone should have access to an Internet that is faster,
Cloudflare Access is the fastest Zero Trust proxy
Cloudflare Access is 75% faster than Netskope and 50% faster than Zscaler, and our network is faster than other providers in 48% of last mile networks
Cloudflare's network expansion in Indonesia
Building a world class network isn’t always easy, otherwise everyone would do it. I wanted to share with you some of the challenges that we’ve faced and how we’ve gone about overcoming them to become a leader for network performance in Indonesia.
How GitHub Docs’ new search works
GitHub Docs recently changed its site-search to Elasticsearch. Here’s how it was implemented.
How to automate your dev environment with dev containers and GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces enables you to start coding faster when coupled with dev containers. Learn how to automate a portion of your development environment by adding a dev container to an open source project using GitHub Codespaces.
USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon
GitHub Availability Report: February 2023
In February, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into a January incident that resulted in degraded performance for GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages and another January incident that impacted Git users.
GitHub Actions: Introducing faster GitHub-hosted x64 macOS runners
Speed up your GitHub Actions jobs on macOS with all new, faster GitHub-hosted macOS runners for x64.
Optimizing performance for over 6M monthly visitors at CruiseCritic
Building Future-Proof High-Performance Websites With Astro Islands And Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
Let’s see how to achieve phenomenal web performance and great developer experience with Astro and a headless CMS, resulting in the best possible experience for users, developers and content creators alike.
How Makeswift improved CI speed by 65% with Turborepo
An Approach to Lazy Loading Custom Elements
We're fans of Custom Elements around here. Their design makes them particularly amenable to lazy loading, which can be a boon for performance.
Less code, better UX: Fetching data faster with the Next.js 13 App Router
Fetching data in Next.js 13 has been vastly improved with Server Components, smarter caching, and Loading UI.
Iterate faster with Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache
Vercel Remote Cache makes your Turborepo caching strategy multiplayer, allowing you to share caches with your teammates and CI.
The technology behind GitHub’s new code search
A look at what went into building the world’s largest public code search index.
GitHub Availability Report: January 2023
In January, we experienced two incidents, one that resulted in degraded performance for Packages and Pages and another that impacted Git users.
Performance Testing At Scale—for BFCM and Beyond - Shopify
Let’s unpack our approach to BFCM Scale Testing to explore some of what it takes to ensure that our ecommerce platform can handle the busiest weekend of the year.
Behind the scenes of Vercel's infrastructure: Achieving optimal scalability and performance
Learn how Vercel builds, deploys, and scales serverless applications with speed and global reliability
Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready - Shopify
YJIT, a just-in-time (JIT) implementation on top of CRuby built at Shopify, is now production-ready and delivering major improvements to performance and speed. Maxime shares the updates that have been made in this newest version of YJIT, and future plans for further optimization.
Delivering AI analysis faster with the Vercel workflow
Optimizing The Image Element LCP — Smashing Magazine
Largest Contentful Paint (or LCP) is a major web performance KPI which is still a new concept for many web developers since it became a ranking factor just recently. In this article, Eloïse Martin provides an overview of the best practices for the integration and optimization of an LCP image.
China Express: Cloudflare partners to boost performance in China for corporate networks
China Express is a suite of connectivity and performance offerings designed to improve application performance for users in China.
Sanity balances experimentation and performance with Vercel Edge Middleware
Edge Functions enable Read.cv to deliver profiles globally, with near-zero latency
Data Mesh Accelerate Workshop
To accelerate means to move faster, to gain speed. Effectively working with data is key for any organization that wants to thrive in the modern world, and Data Mesh is showing organizations how to realise value from their data, at scale. The Data Mesh Accelerate workshop helps teams and organisations accelerate their Data Mesh transformation, by understanding their current state and exploring what
Fixing a Memory Leak in a Production Node.js App
How I found and fixed a memory leak on kentcdodds.com
Top Front-End Tools Of 2022 — Smashing Magazine
Useful front-end tools for CSS and JavaScript developers that were most popular last year and will help you speed up your development workflow. Let’s dive in!
Cloudflare is faster than Zscaler
Cloudflare is 38-55% faster at delivering Zero Trust experiences than Zscaler. Let’s talk about why that is and how we found that out
Build a fast, animated image gallery with Next.js
Learn how to build a performant image gallery using the Next.js image component and Cloudinary that can handle hundreds of large images and deliver great UX.
GitHub Availability Report: December 2022
In December, we did not experience any incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report sheds light into an incident that impacted customers using GitHub Packages and GitHub Pages in November.
JSON logs in PostgreSQL 15
Find out how JSON logs can be configured in PostgreSQL 15 and get all the advantages of this brand new feature
Optimizing Ruby’s Memory Layout: Variable Width Allocation - Shopify
Shopify is improving CRuby’s performance in Ruby 3.2 by optimizing the memory layout in the garbage collector through the Variable Width Allocation project.