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
Descale your network with Cloudflare’s enhanced Descaler Program
At its core, the Descaler Program helps derisk change. It’s designed to be simple and straightforward, with resources to ensure a smooth transition and supporting technology to ensure the migration achieves your organization's goals
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
Globally distributed AI and a Constellation update
Today we’re announcing new Constellation features, explain why it’s the first globally distributed AI platform and why deploying your machine learning tasks in our global network is advantageous.
Donning a MASQUE: building a new protocol into Cloudflare WARP
Announcing support for MASQUE, a cutting-edge new protocol for the beta version of our consumer WARP iOS app
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
Using AI To Detect Sentiment In Audio Files — Smashing Magazine
Dive into an article where you will build an app that evaluates audio files for positive and negative sentiments. The idea is that you will create an interface for uploading an audio file, then transcribe the contents into text before analyzing the text and assigning it a positive or negative score for how the tone is perceived.
An Introduction to Streaming on the Web
Learn how web streams work, their advantages, streaming on Vercel, and tools built around web streams.
Enhanced content management for your headless CMS
Draft Mode and Visual Editing for better content management making it easier to see your latest content changes before they’re published.
How Neo Financial cut time spent on infrastructure admin by 50%
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
Cloudflare Snippets is now available in alpha
Cloudflare Snippets are available in alpha. Snippets are a simple way of executing a small piece of Javascript on select HTTP requests, using the ruleset engine filtering logic
Part 2: Rethinking cache purge with a new architecture
In this post we’ll be talking about some of the architecture improvements we’ve made so far for Cache Purge and what we’re working on now
It's never been easier to migrate thanks to Cloudflare's new Migration Hub
Today, we are thrilled to relaunch Turpentine, and introduce Cloudflare's new Migration Hub. The Migration Hub serves as a one-stop-shop for all migration needs, featuring brand-new migration guides that bring transparency and simplicity to the process
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
Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode
Learn about our new interface, and how we're making Figma better for developers
AI: The next chapter in design
AI is more than a product, it’s a platform that will change how and what we design—and who gets involved.
Building a digital-first future for every student
Figma and Google for Education are doubling down on the promise of bringing design and technology tooling to K12 students across the US and Japan
Open Source challenge results from Gamedev.js Jam 2023
Highlighting 13 of the top games plus source from the latest Gamedev.js jam–by GitHub Star and event organizer, Andrzej Mazur.
Bridging code and community
Explore the impact of non-code contributions—and why they are often undervalued, the challenges of using open source in regulated environments, and the art of managing projects at the scale of Kubernetes, now on The ReadME Podcast.
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.
Introducing Skew Protection
Skew Protection from Vercel, a mechanism to eliminate version skew
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
Introducing HTTP/3 Prioritization
Today, Cloudflare is very excited to announce full support for HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities, a new standard that speeds the loading of webpages by up to 37%
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%
Unexpected downsides of UUID keys in PostgreSQL
Understand how using UUIDs as primary keys can affect PostgreSQL performance, and how to tweak your index to avoid UUID performance pitfalls.
Why roles are not rules
Product development is increasingly collaborative. But what does it mean to be collaborative as an engineer?
Introducing Shortcut, Figma’s new blog
It’s been said “you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
How to write better prompts for GitHub Copilot
In this prompt guide for GitHub Copilot, two GitHub developer advocates, Rizel and Michelle, will share examples and best practices for communicating your desired results to the AI pair programmer.
Detecting Scene Changes in Audiovisual Content - Netflix TechBlog
When watching a movie or an episode of a TV show, we experience a cohesive narrative that unfolds before us, often without giving much thought to the underlying structure that makes it all possible…
Visual Editing Comes To The Headless CMS — Smashing Magazine
Visual editing is beginning to make its way into headless architecture and the early results look promising. We’ll look at a few headless CMSs that currently support visual editing in this article.
New features for SvelteKit: Optimize your application with ease
Get the most out of your SvelteKit app with pre-route configuration, Incremental Static Regeneration, and data at the Edge.
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
Every request, every microsecond: scalable machine learning at Cloudflare
We'll describe the technical strategies that have enabled us to expand the number of machine learning features and models, all while substantially reducing the processing time for each HTTP request on our network
How Orpheus automatically routes around bad Internet weather
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet for everyone, and Orpheus plays an important role in realizing this mission everyday.
Cloudflare's global network grows to 300 cities and ever closer to end users with connections to 12,000 networks
We are pleased to announce that Cloudflare is now connected to over 12,000 Internet networks in over 300 cities around the world
How Cloudflare runs machine learning inference in microseconds
How we optimized bot management’s machine learning model execution
What’s happening at Config 2023?
No need for FOMO—the Editorial Team is reporting live from the scene.
Developers need the right to challenge junk patents
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently proposed rule changes that will make it harder to challenge low quality patents. Without the ability to quickly and efficiently challenge wrongly granted patents, innovation and developers suffer.
Gatsby Headaches And How To Cure Them: i18n (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
Part 2 of the series concentrates on implementing internationalization (i18n) on a Gatsby website, an essential feature on any multilingual website that can be quite a bit of trouble if incorrectly implemented, creating more problems than it solves.
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
What Was SmashingConf In San Franciso Like? — Smashing Magazine
One way of getting a more behind-the-scenes experience of any Smashing event is to apply as a volunteer, and Ren did just that! The SmashingConf team organized a conference in good ol’ San Francisco this year, and here’s pretty much how it went down.
Exploring GitHub with the redesigned navigation, now in public beta
GitHub’s redesigned navigation is enabled for all users as a public beta.
CodeQL zero to hero part 2: Getting started with CodeQL
Learn the basics of CodeQL and how to use it for security research! In this blog, we will teach you how to leverage GitHub’s static analysis tool CodeQL to write custom CodeQL queries.
Meet Codux: The React Visual Editor That Improves Developer Experience — Smashing Magazine
[Codux](https://codux.hopp.to/smashing) is a new visual IDE brought to you by the fine folks over at[ Wix](https://www.wix.com/). It’s got a lot of low-code features that level the playing field for app development but is really designed for React developers. How so, you ask? That’s what we’re going to explore in this article.
Introducing the Vercel AI SDK: npm i ai
An interoperable, streaming-enabled, edge-ready software development kit for AI apps built with React and Svelte.
From idea to acquisition: How Potion.so shipped 4,000+ sites on Vercel
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.
How To Build Server-Side Rendered (SSR) Svelte Apps With SvelteKit — Smashing Magazine
SvelteKit is a framework for building apps using Svelte. In this article, Sriram shows you how to build a server-side rendered (SSR) SvelteKit application and deploy it to Netlify by following this step-by-step guide.
Introducing Vercel's AI Accelerator
A 6 week program with over $850k in credits from Vercel and top AI platforms.
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
Use HOT, so CLUSTER won't rot in PostgreSQL
How to use HOT updates to maintain the row order established by CLUSTER to get efficient index scans in PostgreSQL.
Linking Modular Architecture to Development Teams
Can a modular architecture improve software delivery? Yes! -but with some caveats. This article charts the journey of an enterprise who set out to shift their architecture to a more modular one in order to ease their growing pains. They found that modularity is a multifaceted solution that extends beyond architecture, into business lines of communication, team topologies and effective developer ex