Just landed: streaming ingestion on Cloudflare with Arroyo and Pipelines
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: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees
R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.
Sequential consistency without borders: How D1 implements global read replication
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.
Tailwind's @apply Feature is Better Than it Sounds
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.
Cascading Layouts: A Workshop on Resilient CSS Layouts
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
Finding a forever home for FigPals
A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.
How we’re making security easier for the average developer
Security should be native to your workflow, not a painful separate process.
The next chapter: EpicAI.pro
What I'm working on with AI education and why I think it's the future.
Gild Just One Lily — Smashing Magazine
“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.
Testing the conversion impact of 50+ global payment methods
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.
Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit
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.
Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow
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.
Introducing Workers Observability: logs, metrics, and queries – all in one place
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.
CSS Carousels
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.
That health is mental
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
How to request a change to a CVE record
Learn how to identify which CVE Numbering Authority is responsible for the record, how to contact them, and what to include with your suggestion.
React for Two Computers
Two things, one origin.
Introducing Chatbot Template
Chatbot is a free, open-source template, powered by Next.js and the AI SDK, that helps you build chatbot applications.
Your frontend, backend, and database — now in one Cloudflare Worker
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.
Skip the setup: deploy a Workers application in seconds
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!
Deploy your Next.js app to Cloudflare Workers with the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext
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.
Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why we’re making it free
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.
CYPEX Online Academy - Application Designer Section
The CYPEX Application Designer is a low-code development platform. Provides a wealth of functionality; quickly build beautiful, efficient apps
How to streamline your design system workflow in Figma
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.
Double click: You can just do things—but should you always?
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.
Found means fixed: Reduce security debt at scale with GitHub security campaigns
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.
How Netflix Accurately Attributes eBPF Flow Logs - Netflix TechBlog
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…
Using Manim For Making UI Animations — Smashing Magazine
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.
Expanding observability on Vercel
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.
Piecing together the Agent puzzle: MCP, authentication & authorization, and Durable Objects free tier
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.
Cloudflare Workflows is now GA: production-ready durable execution
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 acquires Outerbase to expand database and agent developer experience capabilities
Cloudflare has acquired Outerbase, expanding our database and agent developer experience capabilities.
Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare
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.
More devops than I bargained for
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
Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
To celebrate two decades of Git, we sat down with Linus Torvalds—the creator of Git and Linux—to discuss how it forever changed software development.
Protectd: Evolving Vercel’s always-on denial-of-service mitigations
Protectd is our new real-time security engine that blocks DDoS attacks faster than ever—built to detect, learn from, and stop threats before they reach your app. Now powering sub-second protection across all regions by default.
Welcome to Developer Week 2025
We’re kicking off Cloudflare’s 2025 Developer Week — our innovation week dedicated to announcements for developers.
Meta Llama 4 now available on Workers AI
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct is now available on Workers AI: use this multimodal, Mixture of Experts AI model on Cloudflare's serverless AI platform to build next-gen AI applications. Build products that can understand images & text, accept large context, with high performance on model quality and inference latency.
Cloudflare’s commitment to CISA Secure-By-Design pledge: delivering new kernels, faster
Cloudflare’s commitment to the CISA pledge reflects our dedication to transparency and accountability to our customers. This blog post outlines how we deliver newly patched kernels across our infrastructure in order to keep Cloudflare secure.
A New "Web" Readiness Report
HTML 5 Readiness was a site that showed through a rainbow of colors the browser support for several web features. What about a new version?
Designing for security and usability: Figma's modern endpoint strategy
At Figma, security doesn’t have to slow you down. We’ve designed our corporate endpoint security with UX in mind, making it seamless and self-serve.
Social Media Engagement in Early 2025
Comparing engagement on two dozen recent social media posts
Vibe coding with GitHub Copilot: Agent mode and MCP support rolling out to all VS Code users
In celebration of MSFT’s 50th anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP support to all VS Code users. We are also announcing the new GitHub Copilot Pro+ plan w/ premium requests, the general availability of models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, next edit suggestions for code completions & the Copilot code review agent.
How To Build A Business Case To Promote Accessibility In Your B2B Products — Smashing Magazine
When passion for accessibility meets business indifference, what bridges the gap? Gloria Diaz Alonso shares how she turned frustration into strategy — by learning to speak the language of business.
Improve your media pipelines with the Images binding for Cloudflare Workers
Media-rich applications require image and video pipelines that integrate seamlessly with the rest of your technology stack. Here’s how the Images binding enables you to build more flexible, programmatic workflows.
Using pgvector for timeseries data
pgvector is a popular PostgreSQL extension for semantic search, facilitating discussions on AI and related topics.
Localhost dangers: CORS and DNS rebinding
What is CORS and how can a CORS misconfiguration lead to security issues? In this blog post, we’ll describe some common CORS issues as well as how you can find and fix them.
How PAIGE grew revenue by 22% with Shopify, Next.js, and Vercel
A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test
Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.
SMIL on?
Well, it turns out that SVG's built-in animation features were never deprecated as planned. Sure, CSS and JavaScript are more than capable of carrying the load, but it's good to know that SMIL is not dead in the water as previously thought, and is actually well-supported.
Why design is for everyone
Design isn’t just a discipline or skillset—it’s a way of working.
Meta Open Source: 2024 by the numbers
Open source has played an essential role in the tech industry and beyond. Whether in the AI/ML, web, or mobile space, our open source community grew and evolved while connecting people worldwide. At Meta Open Source, 2024 was a year of growth and transformation. Our open source initiatives addressed the evolving needs and challenges of […]
Building A Drupal To Storyblok Migration Tool: An Engineering Perspective — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Edoardo Dusi shares the engineering and architectural choices made by the team at Storyblok and how real-world migration challenges were addressed using modern PHP practices.
“You get Instant Purge, and you get Instant Purge!” — all purge methods now available to all customers
Following up on having the fastest purge in the industry, we have now increased Instant Purge quotas across all Cloudflare plans.
Crafting Strong DX With Astro Components and TypeScript
One thing we can do to help teams code consistently is provide type-checking so that all of the configurable options for a specific component are available while coding. Bryan demonstrates how he does this with TypeScript when working with Astro components.
GitHub found 39M secret leaks in 2024. Here’s what we’re doing to help
Every minute, GitHub blocks several secrets with push protection—but secret leaks still remain one of the most common causes of security incidents. Learn how GitHub is making it easier to protect yourself from exposed secrets, including today’s launches of standalone Secret Protection, org-wide scanning, and better access for teams of all sizes.
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Release the Spotify App (Part 1)
Developing and releasing mobile apps at scale is a big challenge. With each weekly release of our mobile app for iOS and Android, hundreds of changes go out to more than 675 million users all over the world and on all kinds of mobile devices. A lot can go wrong, so discovering and mitigating potential and confirmed issues is critical to ensuring a smooth listening experience. Every feature could i
Celebrating Five Years of Backstage: From Open Source Project to Enterprise Business
Did you know that we sell Spotify’s developer productivity tools and support to other companies, from online retailers and fashion brands to banks and automobile manufacturers? How did Spotify get into the business of selling enterprise developer software? And how does serving the open source community — not to mention paying corporate customers — improve our own internal software practices? Tyson
Worlds Collide: Keyframe Collision Detection Using Style Queries
Interactive CSS animations with elements ricocheting off each other seem more plausible in 2025. While it’s unnecessary to implement Pong in CSS, the increasing flexibility and power of CSS reinforce Lee's suspicion that one day it will be a lifestyle choice whether to achieve any given effect with scripting or CSS.
GitHub for Beginners: How to get LLMs to do what you want
Learn how to write effective prompts and troubleshoot results in this installment of our GitHub for Beginners series.
