
The EMEA region is a patchwork of diverse markets, industries, and regulatory environments, and it demands a partner-centric approach. That’s why I joined Cloudflare as VP of EMEA Partnerships.

Efficiency is always a topic. Therefore, it is important to understand that indexing is the key to success. Read more about indexing vectors.
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig·April 15, 2025Databases 
Figma launches Korean localization open beta, with more languages expected to follow this year.

Figma’s editorial newsletter about how products take shape—and shape our world.

Figma has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 with the SEC

Comparing GitHub-hosted vs self-hosted runners for your CI/CD workflows? This deep dive explores important factors to consider when making this critical infrastructure decision for your development team.

Dark mode isn’t just a trendy aesthetic. It’s a gateway to more inclusive digital experiences, but only if designed thoughtfully. Discover how to craft dark modes that don’t just look good but work for everyone, from those with light sensitivity to machine learning algorithms.
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Alex Williams·April 15, 2025AI & ML 
We’ve closed out Developer Week 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out during the week.

After years navigating the world of high-growth tech I’ve learned to recognize a truly special opportunity when I see one. That’s exactly what I have found at Cloudflare and why I’m thrilled to join as Chief People Officer.

Custom cursors with CSS are great, but we can take things to the next level with JavaScript. Using JavaScript, we can transition between cursor states, place dynamic text within the cursor, apply complex animations, and apply filters.

Learn how to leverage GitHub Copilot to make your code more secure.
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Kedasha Kerr·April 14, 2025AI & ML 
When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some of those early predictions, and seeing if we can glean any insights about where things are headed.
JWJosh W. Comeau·April 14, 2025AI & ML 
In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time…

We migrated grep.app from Create React App to Next.js. We break down how we combined single-page app speed with React Server Component efficiency. 70% faster First Contentful Paint, 73% quicker network request completion, now searching 1M repos.

We’re announcing Workers VPC: a global private network that allows applications deployed on Cloudflare Workers to connect to your legacy cloud infrastructure. Now, you can unlock access to your existing APIs and data in external clouds and build global, modern, cross-cloud apps on Workers.
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Thomas Gauvin, Steve Welham·April 11, 2025Networking 
Explore how developers are using Cloudflare to scale AI workloads and streamline automation. Learn more about what our participants in Workers Launchpad Cohort #4 have built, and check out the latest startups participating in Cohort #5.
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Christopher Rotas·April 11, 2025AI & ML 
Learn about recent developments in Certificate Transparency (CT), and how we built a next-generation CT log on top of Cloudflare's Developer Platform.

We just made Workers AI inference faster with speculative decoding & prefix caching. Use our new batch inference for handling large request volumes seamlessly. Build tailored AI apps with more LoRA options. Lastly, new models and a refreshed dashboard round out this Developer Week update for Workers AI.

Cloudflare’s Startup Program offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform across 4 tiers: $5,000, $25,000, $100,000, and $250,000.
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Christopher Rotas, Melissa Kargiannakis·April 11, 2025Engineering 
We transitioned to Cloudflare Workflows to manage complex, multi-step processes more efficiently. This shift replaced our queues-based architecture in our National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting system with a structured, retryable workflow that’s easier to debug and maintain.

Cloudflare Containers are coming this June. Run new types of workloads on our network with an experience that is simple, scalable, global and deeply integrated with Workers.
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Mike Nomitch, Gabi Villalonga Simon·April 11, 2025Networking 
Browsers are planning to update UA stylesheets for nested <h1> elements. It's a good idea to make sure your nested heading styles aren't relying on the

This CSS-Tricks update highlights significant progress in the Almanac, recent podcast appearances, a new CSS counters guide, and the addition of several new authors contributing valuable content.

Explore the iterative development journey of GitHub’s sub-issues feature. Learn how we leveraged sub-issues to build and refine sub-issues, breaking down larger tasks into smaller, manageable ones.

Everyone’s talking about MCP these days when it comes to large language models (LLMs)—here’s what you need to know.
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Cassidy Williams·April 11, 2025AI & ML 
We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x.

We’ve just shipped our new streaming ingestion service, Pipelines — and we’ve acquired Arroyo, enabling us to bring new SQL-based, stateful transformations to Pipelines and R2.

R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.

D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. In this post, we do a technical deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions.
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Justin Mazzola Paluska, Lambros Petrou·April 10, 2025Databases 
Most of the time, people showcase Tailwind's @apply feature with one of Tailwind's single-property utilities (which changes a single CSS declaration). When showcased this way, @apply doesn't sound promising at all. So obviously, nobody wants to use it. Personally, I think Tailwind's @apply feature is better than described.

If I were starting with CSS today for the very first time, I would first want to spend time understanding writing modes because that's a great place to wrap

A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.

Security should be native to your workflow, not a painful separate process.

What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
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Kent C. Dodds·April 10, 2025AI & ML 
“Gilding the lily” isn’t always bad. In design, a touch of metaphorical gold — a subtle animated transition, a hint of color, or added depth in a drop shadow — can help communicate a level of care and attention that builds trust. But first? You need a lily. Nail the fundamentals. Then, gild it carefully.

We have data that shows when at least one additional relevant payment method beyond cards is dynamically surfaced, businesses on average see a meaningful increase in conversion and revenue.

Announcing Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit, a complete toolkit for shipping real-time audio and video apps in days with SDKs for Kotlin, React Native, Swift, JavaScript, and Flutter.
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Zaid, Will Allen·April 9, 2025Frontend 
Securely store, manage and deploy account level secrets to Cloudflare Workers through Cloudflare Secrets Store, available in beta – with role-based access control, audit logging and Wrangler support.

We’ve improved Observability for Workers by announcing the General Availability of Workers Logs and the introduction of the Query Builder to help you investigate log events across all of your Workers.

Chrome has prototyped these features and released them in Chrome 135. Adam Argyle has a wonderful explainer over at the Chrome Developer blog. Kevin Powell has an equally wonderful video where he follows the explainer. This post is me taking notes from them.

Disclaimer : Trigger warning: depression, talk of suicide. It’s been a while since I wrote a mental health piece — but I think it’s important to occasionally stop, take a breather, and think about how we feel. So. deep breath I’m okay, I think? Just a little restless. A bit of personal context For those keeping score, I went through major life events in 2023 — a divorce, a move, and the news that

Learn how to identify which CVE Numbering Authority is responsible for the record, how to contact them, and what to include with your suggestion.

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Chatbot is a free, open-source template, powered by Next.js and the AI SDK, that helps you build chatbot applications.

You can now deploy static sites and full-stack applications on Cloudflare Workers – the primitives are all here. Framework support for React Router v7, Astro, Vue, and more are generally available today, as is the Cloudflare Vite plugin. Connect to Postgres and MySQL databases with Hyperdrive.

You can now add a Deploy to Cloudflare button to your repository’s README when building a Workers application, making it simple for other developers to set up and deploy your project!

With the 1.0-beta release of the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext, you can host your Next.js 14 and 15 applications on Cloudflare Workers.
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Dario, Victor Berchet·April 8, 2025Frontend 
Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. We go deep into the details of what that looks like, in celebration of announcing its availability for Free Plan customers.
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Andrew Repp, Matt Alonso·April 8, 2025Databases 
The CYPEX Application Designer is a low-code development platform. Provides a wealth of functionality; quickly build beautiful, efficient apps

If you’ve ever stared down a blank Figma file while building a new design system, never fear: These new features and plugins will turn that mountain of work into an afternoon task.

The catchphrase is catching fire as early adopters ride the new wave of AI-powered tools. Here’s how we might channel that energy and avoid the risk of being overwhelmed.
AHAndrew Hogan·April 8, 2025AI & ML 
Starting today, security campaigns are generally available for all GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security customers—helping organizations take control of their security debt and manage risk by unlocking collaboration between developers and security teams.

In a previous blog post, we described how Netflix uses eBPF to capture TCP flow logs at scale for enhanced network insights. In this post, we delve deeper into how Netflix solved a core problem…

Animation makes things clearer, especially for designers and front-end developers working on UI, prototypes, or interactive visuals. Manim is a tool that lets you create smooth and dynamic animations, not just for the design field but also in math, coding, and beyond, to explain complex ideas or simply make everything a little bit more interactive.

The Vercel Marketplace adds new native integrations from Sentry, Checkly, and Dash0. Use the tools you already trust to monitor, measure, and debug your apps with integrated billing, single sign-on, and access to provider dashboards from Vercel.

Cloudflare delivers the toolkit for AI agents with new Agents SDK support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) clients, authentication/authorization/hibernation for MCP servers, and Durable Objects free tier.

Workflows — a durable execution engine built directly on top of Workers — is now Generally Available. We’ve landed new human-in-the-loop capabilities, more scale, and more metrics: just what you need for a production-ready service.

Cloudflare has acquired Outerbase, expanding our database and agent developer experience capabilities.
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Brandon Strittmatter, Silverlock·April 7, 2025Databases 
AutoRAG is here: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines powered by Cloudflare's global network and powerful developer ecosystem. Simplify how you build and scale RAG pipelines to power your context-aware AI chatbots and search applications.

Background I recently had a bit of impromptu disaster recovery , and it gave me a hunger for more! More downtime! More kubernetes manifest! More DNS! Ahhhh! The plan was really simple. I love dedicated Hetzner servers with all my heart but they are not very fungible. You have to wait entire minutes for a new dedicated server to be provisioned. Sometimes you pay a setup fee, et cetera. And at some