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.
Four years in, here’s what Config tells us about the state of design
We received over 1,000 proposals to speak at our annual user conference this year. Researcher Andrew Hogan helps us dig into the data to see what inspires the community.
9 tips to go from attendee to speaker at a tech conference
Here’s what you need to know to write a compelling session proposal and get on stage.
GitHub celebrates developers with disabilities on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
GitHub is the home for all developers and on this Global Accessibility Awareness Day we are thrilled to celebrate the achievements of disabled developers and recent ships that help them build on GitHub.
MSVP is Meta’s first video processing ASIC
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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.
PostgreSQL ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES - permissions explained
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command for PostgreSQL permissions explained: learn how to use it correctly, know its pitfalls and use cases.
Inside GitHub: Working with the LLMs behind GitHub Copilot
Developers behind GitHub Copilot discuss what it was like to work with OpenAI’s large language model and how it informed the development of Copilot as we know it today.
How GitHub Copilot is getting better at understanding your code
With a new Fill-in-the-Middle paradigm, GitHub engineers improved the way GitHub Copilot contextualizes your code. By continuing to develop and test advanced retrieval algorithms, they’re working on making our AI tool even more advanced.
Design’s journey towards accessibility
Design can have a significant impact on delivering accessible experiences to our users. It takes a cultural shift, dedicated experts, and permission to make progress over perfection in order to build momentum. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re starting to see a real shift in our journey to make GitHub a true home for all developers.
How To Deal With Big Tooling Upgrades In Large Organizations — Smashing Magazine
The process of upgrading large third-party packages in equally large organizations is rarely, if ever, as easy as running an npm update and calling it a day in this context. Joran Quinten shares valuable lessons from his team’s experiences in upgrading third-party code that affects codebases across the entire organization.
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!
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
Announcing FigJam screen reader support
How to build FigJam files that support screen readers and an update on our continued commitment to accessibility.
Building and deploying MySQL Raft at Meta
We’re rolling out MySQL Raft with the aim to eventually replace our current MySQL semisynchronous databases. The biggest win of MySQL Raft was simplification of the operation and making MySQL servers take care of promotions and membership. This gave the provable safety of Raft and reduced significant operational pain. Making MySQL server a true […]
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.
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
Solving Media Object Float Issues With CSS Block Formatting Contexts — Smashing Magazine
This article covers common problems using CSS floats and how to solve them using a block formatting context (BFC). Whether you are a beginner or an experienced web developer, you will learn valuable insights and practical solutions for dealing with CSS float issues.
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
This month on The ReadME Podcast: Balancing openness and control
Open vs. control: the paradox of open source. We take a look at the expectations of open source, how the definition has evolved, and when ‘closed to contributions’ is the right move. Tune in to the latest episode of The ReadME Podcast for more.
How I used GitHub Copilot to build a browser extension
Here’s how, in seven steps, I built my first browser extension with GitHub Copilot—and my three major takeaways about learning and pair programming in the age of AI.
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
Designing Sticky Menus: UX Guidelines — Smashing Magazine
Are sticky headers always a good idea? Best practices for designing sticky headers, with examples, UX guidelines and usability considerations.
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
Navigation and search improvements for accessibility
Discover the accessibility features within our new navigation and code search which make it easier to use for many more people.
Unlocking inclusive design: how Primer’s color system is making GitHub.com more inclusive
How Primer’s updated light and dark theme color contrast strategy resolved hundreds of color-contrast-related accessibility issues over one thousand use cases.
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!
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
Lessons learned: Using a cybersecurity vendor to check for malicious links
Revolutionize your open source workflows: the top 3 reasons why GitHub Codespaces is a must-have for maintainers
GitHub Codespaces is reliable, accessible, and always-ready. Try it out during Maintainer Month and take your projects to new heights!
Game Bytes
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
