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
Exam-related Internet shutdowns in Iraq and Algeria put connectivity to the test
During the first two weeks of June 2023, we’ve seen Iraq implementing a series of multi-hour shutdowns that will reportedly occur through mid-July, as well as Algeria taking similar actions to prevent cheating on baccalaureate exams
Protecting GraphQL APIs from malicious queries
Starting today, Cloudflare’s API Gateway can protect GraphQL APIs against malicious requests that may cause a denial of service to the origin
Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol
Nine years of Project Galileo and how the last year has changed it
For the ninth anniversary, we want to focus on access to affordable cyber security tools and what we have learned protecting the most vulnerable communities
Dynamic data collection with Zaraz Worker Variables
A guided tour of Cloudflare Zaraz new exciting premium feature, available for Workers paid account: Worker Variables, that allows to pipe a Worker’s response to third-party tools
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
Cloudflare is deprecating Railgun
Cloudflare will deprecate Railgun on January 2024
How Oxy uses hooks for maximum extensibility
Let's take a look from the perspective of an Oxy application developer, and then we can discuss the implementation of the framework and some of the interesting design decisions we made
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
Recapping Developer Week
Developer Week 2023 is officially a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we shipped last week
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program
Launching our new Open Source Software Sponsorships Program and broadening the eligibility criteria to support more projects.
Announcing Cohort #2 of the Workers Launchpad
Announcing the second cohort of the Workers Launchpad - we can't wait to work with them and showcase these incredible companies building on Cloudflare's Developer Platform!
D1: We turned it up to 11
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
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.
Workers Browser Rendering API enters open beta
The Workers Browser Rendering API allows developers to programmatically control and interact with a headless browser instance and create automation flows for their applications and products. Today we enter the open beta and start onboarding our customers.
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.
Announcing Cloudflare Secrets Store
Introducing Secrets Store by Cloudflare - the ultimate solution for managing your application secrets securely. Safeguard sensitive information, track access, and maintain ease of use.
How to secure Generative AI applications
Earn best practices for securing generative AI applications based on Cloudflare's experience protecting some of the largest AI applications in the world
Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare
Cloudflare was originally built as native services, but we’re building more and more of it on Cloudflare itself. This post describes how and why we’re doing this.
How Cloudflare is powering the next generation of platforms with Workers
Workers for Platforms is our Workers offering for customers building new platforms on Cloudflare Workers. Let’s take a look back and recap why we built Workers for Platforms, show you some of the most interesting problems our customers have been solving and share new features that are now available!
Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together
We are incredibly stoked that our friends at LangChain have announced LangChainJS Support for Cloudflare Workers! In this post we'll show you how to build a sample application.
Bringing a unified developer experience to Cloudflare Workers and Pages
Today we’re excited to announce that over the next year we will be working to bring together the best traits and attributes you know and love from each product into one powerful platform!
Modernizing the toolbox for Cloudflare Pages builds
A new beta build system is now available for Cloudflare Pages. We've updated our default languages and tools, and made some exciting underlying architecture changes. You can enable it in your project settings in the dashboard today.
Improved local development with wrangler and workerd
We’re proud to announce the release of Wrangler v3 – the first version of Wrangler with local-by-default development, powered by Miniflare v3 and the open-source Workers `workerd` runtime.
Making Cloudflare the best place for your web applications
Angular, Astro, Next, Nuxt, Qwik, Remix, Solid, Svelte, Vue on Cloudflare? Deployed globally, even “beyond the edge”, with a single command? And all for $0 or a fraction of the usual cost? Try: npm create cloudflare
A whole new Quick Edit in Cloudflare Workers
We’re proud to announce an improved dashboard editor experience that allows users to edit multimodule Workers, use real edge previews, and debug their Workers more easily - all powered by Workers and VSCode for the Web.
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!
Announcing database integrations: a few clicks to connect to Neon, PlanetScale and Supabase on Workers
Today we’re announcing Database Integrations – making it seamless to connect to your database of choice on Workers.
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.
Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
We’re excited to announce new updates that will modernize our terms of service and hopefully cut down on customer confusion and frustration.
The S3 to R2 Super Slurper is now Generally Available
Use Super Slurper to quickly, securely, and easily migrate data from S3 to R2.
Use Snowflake with R2 to extend your global data lake
Joint customers can now use Snowflake with Cloudflare R2 to extend your global data lake without having to worry about egress fee
Announcing connect() — a new API for creating TCP sockets from Cloudflare Workers
Today, we are excited to announce a new API in Cloudflare Workers for creating outbound TCP sockets, making it possible to connect directly to databases and any TCP-based service from Workers
A complete suite of Zero Trust security tools to help get the most from AI
Secure your team’s usage of AI tools with Cloudflare One
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
A raft of free Cloudflare services for AI startups
Bootstrapped AI startups can get the startup plan without accelerator affiliation
Introducing Cursor: the Cloudflare AI Assistant
Check out Cursor - our experimental AI assistant trained to answer questions about Cloudflare’s Developer Platform!
Query Cloudflare Radar and our docs using ChatGPT plugins
We’re excited to share two new Cloudflare ChatGPT plugins – the Cloudflare Radar plugin and the Cloudflare Docs plugin
Welcome to Developer Week 2023
It is an incredibly exciting time to be a developer. We couldn’t imagine a better time to be kicking off Developer Week here at Cloudflare
Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programming
The recent arrival of LLMs capable of assisting programmers in writing, debugging and modifying code is yet another step. It’s a step at both making programmers more productive and helping more people be programmers
Magic in minutes: how to build a ChatGPT plugin with Cloudflare Workers
Announcing our new Quickstart example for building ChatGPT Plugins with Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare’s view of Internet disruptions in Pakistan
Following the arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan, violent protests led the Pakistani government to order the shutdown of mobile Internet services and blocking of social media platforms. We examine the impact of these shutdowns on Internet traffic in Pakistan and traffic to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver.
How Pingora keeps count
In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind
The Linux Crypto API for user applications
If you run your software on Linux, the Linux Kernel itself can satisfy all your cryptographic needs! In this post we will explore Linux Crypto API for user applications and try to understand its pros and cons
How the coronation of King Charles III affected Internet traffic
As the coronation ceremony unfolded, on Saturday morning, May 6, 2023, there were clear spikes and dips in traffic, each coinciding with key moments of the ceremony
Introducing Object Lifecycle Management for Cloudflare R2
We’re excited to announce that Object Lifecycle Management for R2 is generally available, allowing you to effectively manage object expiration, all from the R2 dashboard or via our API
The European Network Usage Fees proposal is about much more than a fight between Big Tech and Big European telcos
There’s an important debate happening in Europe that could affect the future of the Internet. The European Commission is considering new rules for how networks connect to each other on the Internet.
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
How we built Network Analytics v2
Network Analytics v2 is a fundamental redesign of the backend systems that power Network Analytics
Effects of the conflict in Sudan on Internet patterns
On Saturday, April 15, 2023, an armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began. Cloudflare observed a disruption in Internet traffic on that Saturday, starting at 08:00 UTC, which deepened on Sunday
Celebrating Australia’s Privacy Awareness Week 2023
Cloudflare proudly sponsored Australian Privacy Awareness Week 2023, championing privacy and security technologies to help customers protect sensitive data, forming the "new privacy basics."
SLP: a new DDoS amplification vector in the wild
Researchers have recently published the discovery of a new DDoS reflection/amplification attack vector leveraging the SLP protocol. Cloudflare expects the prevalence of SLP-based DDoS attacks to rise in the coming weeks
Why I joined Cloudflare as Chief Security Officer
As someone who is passionate about technology, security, and its potential to improve our lives, I knew that I wanted to work for a company that shared those values.
Oxy: Fish/Bumblebee/Splicer subsystems to improve reliability
We split a proxy application into multiple services to improve development agility and reliability. This blog also shares some common patterns we are leveraging to design a system supporting zero-downtime restart
Secure by default: recommendations from the CISA’s newest guide, and how Cloudflare follows these principles to keep you secure
In this post we’ll review some of the authors’ recommendations, discuss how Cloudflare applies these principles to the products that we build, and provide some suggestions on what other organizations can do to support similar initiatives internally
How Easter, Passover and Ramadan show up in Internet trends
How Easter (including Orthodox Easter), Passover & Ramadan affected 2023 Internet traffic
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
Consent management made easy and clear with Cloudflare Zaraz
Cloudflare Zaraz now can also help you with gathering and managing consent. With this new tool, you can easily collect user’s consent preferences on your website, using a consent modal, and apply your consent policy on third-party tools you load via Cloudflare Zaraz
