Recap: Next.js Conf 2024
Next.js Conf 2024
Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest
Cloudflare Workflows is now in open beta! Workflows allows you to build reliable, repeatable, long-lived multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state, and scale out. Read on to learn how Workflows works, how we built it on top of Durable Objects, and how you can deploy your first Workflows application.
Durable Objects aren't just durable, they're fast: a 10x speedup for Cloudflare Queues
Learn how we built Cloudflare Queues using our own Developer Platform and how it evolved to a geographically-distributed, horizontally-scalable architecture built on Durable Objects. Our new architecture supports over 10x more throughput and over 3x lower latency compared to the previous version.
Billions and billions (of logs): scaling AI Gateway with the Cloudflare Developer Platform
How we scaled AI Gateway to handle and store billions of requests, using Cloudflare Workers, D1, Durable Objects, and R2.
You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons
The CSS text-wrap property is (rightfully) widely assumed to be used strictly for text elements. But Terrence Eden posted an article on his blog that shows how it can also be used to balance the way other types of elements wrap, including icons.
Attacking browser extensions
Learn about browser extension security and secure your extensions with the help of CodeQL.
Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @adrianoapj
As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to feature another spotlight on a talented security researcher who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program—@adrianoapj!
DDoS threat report for 2024 Q3
Welcome to the 19th edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Released quarterly, these reports provide an in-depth analysis of the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the Cloudflare network. This edition focuses on the third quarter of 2024.
Fearless SSH: short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure
Access for Infrastructure, BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One, will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature of this integration.
Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks
In this blog post we will describe how we use anomaly detection to watch for novel DDoS attacks. We’ll provide an overview of how we build models which flag unusual traffic and keep our customers safe.
Clarifying the Relationship Between Popovers and Dialogs
Pop quiz! What's the difference between a Popover element and a Dialog element? The answer is not all that clear and is widely misunderstood, but Zell has a clear way to explain it so that you know which element to reach for in your work.
Diversity, inclusion, and belonging at GitHub in 2024
From advancing ethical AI practices to expanding open source learning for developers in Africa, discover how we’ve fostered diversity, inclusion, and belonging this year.
Maximizing outputs with v0: From UI generation to code creation
Learn prompt engineering best practices for working with v0's core functionality to get the best results.
What's new in Svelte 5
Svelte 5 brings runes for universal reactivity, snippets for reusable markup, and compiler improvements. Get started with Svelte 5 on Vercel today.
Building Vectorize, a distributed vector database, on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Vectorize was recently upgraded and made generally available, now supporting indexes of up to 5 million vectors, delivering faster responses, with lower pricing and a free tier. This post dives deep into how we built Vectorize to enable these improvements.
Is this thing on? Using OpenBMC and ACPI power states for reliable server boot
Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet.
IPLS: Privacy-preserving storage for your WhatsApp contacts
Your contact list is fundamental to the experiences you love and enjoy on WhatsApp. With contacts, you know which of your friends and family are on WhatsApp, you can easily message or call them, and it helps give you context on who is in your groups. But losing your phone could mean losing your contact […]
sshfs isn't really what I wanted for my backup situation
How Vercel adopted microfrontends
Learn how Vercel cut build times and improved developer velocity while maintaining a smooth user experience with microfrontends.
BNP Paribas Open: Serving up scores and experiences in real time with Work & Co and Vercel
Made in Figma: The National Park Service goes from paper to pixels
How do you design an app for 431 diverse national parks and monuments? Learn how a small team adapted Massimo Vignelli’s seminal design system for a digital interface.
Open source supply chain security explained: The essential role of CVEs
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace.
Janky remote backups without root on the far end
Combining forces, GSAP & Webflow!
Change can certainly be scary whenever a beloved, independent software library becomes a part of a larger organization. I'm feeling a bit more excitement than
Mastering theme.json: You might not need CSS
I totally get the goal here: make CSS more modular and scalable in WordPress. Put all your global WordPress theme styles in a single file, including
How Shopify improved consumer search intent with real-time ML - Shopify
In the dynamic landscape of commerce, Shopify merchants rely on our platform's ability to seamlessly and reliably deliver highly relevant products to potential customers. Therefore, a rich and intuitive search experience is an essential part of our offering. Over the past year, Shopify has been integrating AI-powered search capabilities into our merchants’ storefronts. Shopify Storefront Search ha
The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono
Hono is a web framework that is fast, lightweight, and built using the Web Standards API. Hear the story of Hono by the creator of Hono.
GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.
CSS min() All The Things — Smashing Magazine
Victor Ayomipo experiments with the CSS `min()` function, exploring its flexibility with different units to determine if it is the be-all, end-all for responsiveness. Discover the cautions he highlights against dogmatic approaches to web design based on his findings.
Eval-driven development: Build better AI faster
Learn how eval-driven development helps you build better AI faster. Discover a new testing paradigm for AI-native development and unlock continuous improvement.
Protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta
Uphold Zero Trust principles and protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta. Learn how this new integration allows your organization to mitigate risk in real time, make informed access decisions, and free up security resources with automation.
Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers
Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count and higher CPU frequency, as well as achieving a significant boost in performance with larger L3 cache per core.
PGDay Lowlands 2024 Reflections
In this blog posting I will tell you more about my trip to the PGDay Lowlands 2024. Find out more about my talk and general learnings.
Dealing with trigger recursion in PostgreSQL
This article describes the problem of endless trigger recursion in PostgreSQL and shows how to deal with it and get good performance.
The infrastructure behind AI search in Figma
A behind the scenes look at the technical problems we faced and how we solved them.
OCP Summit 2024: The open future of networking hardware for AI
At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2024, we’re sharing details about our next-generation network fabric for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage […]
Meta’s open AI hardware vision
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware designs with the OCP community. These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rack designs, and advanced network fabrics and components. By sharing our designs, we hope to inspire collaboration and foster innovation. If you’re passionate about building […]
It’s Here! How To Measure UX & Design Impact, With Vitaly Friedman — Smashing Magazine
Design decisions shouldn’t be a matter of personal preference. We can use reliable design KPIs and UX metrics to guide and shape our design work and measure its impact on business. Meet How To Measure UX and Design Impact, our new video course that helps with just that.
Stripe Sessions is back on May 6, 2025
Join us May 6–8 in San Francisco for Stripe Sessions, our annual user conference. We’re doubling the number of breakout sessions, expanding our training program, and adding a demo stage to showcase more of Stripe’s key updates.
v0 plans for teams are here
Introducing v0 Team and Enterprise plans—designed for secure and efficient collaboration. Team can share Projects, chats, and resources with higher messaging limits. Enterprises can secure access with SSO and automatic opt-out of data training.
Investigation of a Workbench UI Latency Issue - Netflix TechBlog
With special thanks to our stunning colleagues Amer Ather, Itay Dafna, Luca Pozzi, Matheus Leão, and Ye Ji. At Netflix, the Analytics and Developer Experience organization, part of the Data Platform…
Reduce payments costs with Instant Bank Payments via Link
Link’s newest feature, Instant Bank Payments, is priced at 2.6% + 30¢ per successful charge (a discount to cards), allowing you to benefit from the cost savings of bank payments while getting the speed of card transactions.
Using Multimodal AI Models For Your Applications (Part 3) — Smashing Magazine
In this third part of the series, you are looking at two models that handle all three modalities — text, images or videos, and audio — without needing a second model for text-to-speech or speech recognition.
CJ Desai: Why I joined Cloudflare as President of Product and Engineering
I am thrilled to embark on this journey to run Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, driving forward the mission of helping build a better Internet.
The search for speed in Figma
Our months-long investigation into slow search speeds led to a solution that not only improved performance but also set the foundation for future scale.
GitHub Availability Report: September 2024
In September, we experienced three incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
We’re All Just Looking for Connection
We’ve been working to bring components of Quip’s technology into Slack with the canvas feature, while also maintaining the stand-alone Quip product. Quip’s backend, which powers both Quip and canvas, is written in Python. This is the story of a tricky bug we encountered last July and the lessons we learned along the way about…
Add 3D to your web projects with v0 and React Three Fiber
How to build 3D web projects with React Three Fiber in v0
How Emburse increased site performance by 4x with Vercel
What’s new in Cloudflare One: Digital Experience (DEX) monitoring notifications and seamless access to Cloudflare Gateway with China Express
This roundup blog post shares the latest new features and capabilities at Cloudflare. Learn more about new Digital Experience (DEX) monitoring notifications and seamless access to Cloudflare Gateway with China Express.
Improving platform resilience at Cloudflare through automation
We realized that we need a way to automatically heal our platform from an operations perspective, and designed and built a workflow orchestration platform to provide these self-healing capabilities across our global network. We explore how this has helped us to reduce the impact on our customers due to operational issues, and the rich variety of similar problems it has empowered us to solve.
2024: More CSS At-Rules Than the Past Decade Combined
More times than I can count, while writing, I get myself into random but interesting topics with little relation to the original post. In the end, I have to
5 tips and tricks when using GitHub Copilot Workspace
GitHub Next launched the technical preview for GitHub Copilot Workspace in April 2024. Since then, we’ve been listening to the community, learning, and have some tips to share on how to get the most out of it!
Stripe Terminal’s expanding ecosystem: New partnerships bring flexibility and innovation to unified commerce
We’re announcing a host of partnerships that allow Terminal to work with more third-party hardware, processors, and point-of-sale (POS) systems.
Our top product updates from Stripe Tour New York
We announced increased interoperability, major upgrades to Stripe Billing, new embedded components for financial services, and a lot more.
Leveraging Vercel and the AI SDK to deliver a seamless, AI-powered experience as a solo founder
How Chatbase scaled rapidly with Vercel's developer experience and AI SDK
Leveraging Kubernetes virtual machines at Cloudflare with KubeVirt
The Kubernetes team runs several multi-tenant clusters across Cloudflare’s core data centers. When multi-tenant cluster isolation is too limiting for an application, we use KubeVirt. KubeVirt is a cloud-native solution that enables our developers to run virtual machines alongside containers.
Cloudflare acquires Kivera to add simple, preventive cloud security to Cloudflare One
The acquisition and integration of Kivera broadens the scope of Cloudflare’s SASE platform beyond just apps, incorporating increased cloud security through proactive configuration management of cloud services.