How we brought multimedia search to Dropbox Dash
Our multimedia retrieval features allow users to find images, video, and audio just as easily as they find documents.
Seventh-generation server hardware at Dropbox: our most efficient and capable architecture yet
This generation represents our most efficient, capable, and scalable architecture yet—and it’ll help us as we continue to build AI products like Dropbox Dash.
Where It's at://
From handles to hosting.
Accelerating our Android apps with Baseline Profiles
Key Takeways: With billions of Android app users, we’re always looking to improve the Meta app experience, and in this post, we explore the ways we’ve leveraged Android’s Baseline Profiles to significantly improve their performance. We discuss the performance challenges we’ve faced as Meta’s apps, how the needs of users have become more complex over […]
Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running entirely on Cloudflare’s stack
We demonstrate how the open-source Payload CMS was ported to run entirely on Cloudflare's developer platform. This post details the technical work required, including building custom database and storage adapters for D1 and R2, and how we’re using Payload to help power Cloudflare TV.
Nationwide Internet shutdown in Afghanistan extends localized disruptions
On September 29, 2025, Internet connectivity was completely shut down across Afghanistan, impacting business, education, finance, and government services. It follows regional shutdowns that began several weeks prior, ostensibly to prevent “immoral activities”.
How to do UPDATE ... LIMIT in PostgreSQL
There is no UPDATE ... LIMIT in PostgreSQL. This article shows how to achieve the same result and how to avoid potential pitfalls.
Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. ✨
LLMs Are the Key to Mutation Testing and Better Compliance
Following our keynote presentations at FSE 2025 and Eurostar 2025, we’re delving further into the development of Meta’s Automated Compliance Hardening (ACH) tool, an LLM-based tool for software testing that is automating aspects of compliance adherence at Meta, while accelerating developer and product velocity. By leveraging LLMs we’ve been able to overcome the barriers that […]
Shades Of October (2025 Wallpapers Edition) — Smashing Magazine
How about some new wallpapers to get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season? We’ve got you covered! Following our monthly tradition, the wallpapers in this post were created with love by the community for the community and can be downloaded for free. Enjoy!
Introducing Open Issuance from Bridge: A new platform to launch your own stablecoin
Open Issuance is a new platform that allows any business to launch and manage its own stablecoin. With its own stablecoin, a business can control its product experience, mint and burn without limits, and earn rewards from reserves.
All our product updates from Stripe Tour New York
We announced new agentic commerce capabilities, modular infrastructure for all parts of the crypto stack, including the ability for you to collect subscription payments using stablecoins, and a lot more.
15 years of helping build a better Internet: A look back at Birthday Week 2025
Cloudflare just turned 15! Birthday Week 2025 celebrated innovation at scale: Rust-powered core systems, post-quantum upgrades, developer access for students, PlanetScale integration, open-source partnerships, and our biggest internship program ever — 1,111 interns in 2026.
Quick Hit #60
Alignment might be one of the more confusing (or misunderstood) parts of CSS. I love having a thorough explanation from someone like Temani Afif who has it
Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
Safari 26 adds:75 new features, 3 deprecations, and 171 other improvements. Here's all the CSS goodness you'll want to know about.
CodeQL zero to hero part 5: Debugging queries
Learn to debug and fix your CodeQL queries.
Meta 3D AssetGen: Generating 3D Worlds With AI
Imagine being able to use AI to create 3D virtual worlds using prompts as easily as you can generate images. The intersection of AI and VR was one of the biggest topics at Meta Connect this year. In his keynote, Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision of a future where anyone can create virtual worlds using […]
Meta’s Infrastructure Evolution and the Advent of AI
Over the past 21 years, Meta has grown exponentially from a small social network connecting a few thousand people in a handful of universities in the U.S. into several apps and novel hardware products that serve over 3.4 billion people throughout the world. Our infrastructure has evolved significantly over the years, growing from a […]
Developing an open standard for agentic commerce
Today, we announced that Stripe is powering OpenAI’s new commerce experience, Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, and we released the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a new open standard that enables programmatic commerce flows between AI agents and businesses.
Collaborating with Anthropic on Claude Sonnet 4.5 to power intelligent coding agents
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available on Vercel AI Gateway and across the Vercel AI Cloud. Also introducing a new coding agent platform template.
How Cloudflare uses the world’s greatest collection of performance data to make the world’s fastest global network even faster
Cloudflare is using its vast traffic to send responses faster than ever before, by learning the characteristics of each individual network and tuning our congestion control system.
Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust
We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. It’s not only substantially faster for all our customers, it’s also more secure, and lets us ship new products quicker than ever before.
Introducing new regional Internet traffic and Certificate Transparency insights on Cloudflare Radar
Cloudflare Radar offers two new features: regional Internet traffic visibility for a more local perspective on trends and disruptions, and a new dashboard bringing insights into Certificate Transparency, the ecosystem which ensures that all website certificates are publicly visible & auditable.
Eliminating Cold Starts 2: shard and conquer
We reduced Cloudflare Workers cold starts by 10x by optimistically routing to servers with already-loaded Workers. Learn how we did it here.
Introducing Observatory and Smart Shield — see how the world sees your website, and make it faster in one click
Today, we’re announcing two enhancements to our Application Performance suite. Observatory and Smart Shield allow you to see how the world sees your website, and make it faster with one click. Available inside the Cloudflare Dashboard today!
An AI Index for all our customers
Cloudflare will soon automatically create an AI-optimized search index for your domain, and expose a set of ready-to-use standard APIs and tools including an MCP server, LLMs.txt, and a search API. For AI builders, Cloudflare will offer a new way to discover and retrieve web content.
Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter
AS-SETs, for better or worse, are critical data sources that help build BGP route filters across the Internet. Because these AS-SET objects are based solely on trust, they can be misused. We will cover some of the reasons why operators need to monitor the AS-SET memberships for their ASN, and now Cloudflare Radar can help.
Network performance update- Birthday Week 2025
On the Internet, being fast is what matters and at Cloudflare, we are committed to being the fastest network in the world. In this post, we will share how our network performance has changed since our last post in September 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance.
Code Mode: the better way to use MCP
It turns out we've all been using MCP wrong. Most agents today use MCP by exposing the "tools" directly to the LLM. We tried something different: Convert the MCP tools into a TypeScript API, and then ask an LLM to write code that calls that API. The results are striking.
Recreating Gmail’s Google Gemini Animation
John Rhea challenged himself to recreate the fancy button using the new CSS shape() function sprinkled with animation to get things pretty close.
Exploration: CNPG Point In Time Recovery
This post demonstrates how to perform a point in time recovery(PITR) for a PostgreSQL cluster on cloud environment using CNPG
How GitHub protects developers from copyright enforcement overreach
Why the U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Sony matters for developers and sharing updates to our Transparency Center and Acceptable Use Policies.
Kicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Researcher spotlights and enhanced incentives
For this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, GitHub’s Bug Bounty team is excited to offer some additional incentives to security researchers!
Networking at the Heart of AI — @Scale: Networking 2025 Recap
AI is everywhere and, as network engineers, we are right in the thick of it: building the network infrastructure for AI. This year, at our largest @Scale:Networking ever, engineers from Meta, ByteDance, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, and NVIDIA came together to share our latest experiences in architecting, designing, operating, and debugging our AI […]
Open Social
The protocol is the API.
From Prompt To Partner: Designing Your Custom AI Assistant — Smashing Magazine
What if your best AI prompts didn’t disappear into your unorganized chat history, but came back tomorrow as a reliable assistant? In this article, you’ll learn how to turn one-off “aha” prompts into reusable assistants that are tailored to your audience, grounded in your knowledge, and consistent every time, saving you (and your team) from typing the same 448-word prompt ever again.
A year of improving Node.js compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
Over the year we have greatly expanded Node.js compatibility. There are hundreds of new Node.js APIs now available that make it easier to run existing Node.js code on our platform. This has been a major initiative for us, and we are excited to share the progress we've made.
Cloudflare's developer platform keeps getting better, faster, and more powerful. Here's everything that's new.
We're making it easier for developers to build amazing things, by introducing major upgrades like external model support in AI Search (previously AutoRAG), updates to Node.js compatibility, support for larger and more concurrent container instances, and more! Plus, new tools like, transactional email, and GAed support for Workers Builds, Media Transformations, and Browser Rendering with Playwright
Announcing the Cloudflare Data Platform: ingest, store, and query your data directly on Cloudflare
The Cloudflare Data Platform, launching today, is a fully-managed suite of products for ingesting, transforming, storing, and querying analytical data, built on Apache Iceberg and R2 storage.
Choice: the path to AI sovereignty
As governments around the world eye AI for national transformation, Cloudflare champions AI sovereignty through choice: diverse tools, data control, and no vendor lock-in. We're enabling this in India, Japan, and Southeast Asia, offering local, open-source models on Workers AI, fostering innovation.
R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine
R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine, from its metadata-driven planner to its parallel execution model.
Partnering to make full-stack fast: deploy PlanetScale databases directly from Workers
We’ve teamed up with PlanetScale to make shipping full-stack applications on Cloudflare Workers even easier. Connect your PlanetScale and Cloudflare accounts together and automatically get distributed connection pooling and query caching for any PlanetScale Postgres or MySQL database.
Safe in the sandbox: security hardening for Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare Workers are constantly being updated to be as secure and efficient as possible. We are further hardening Workers by making use of the latest software and hardware features. We use defense-in-depth, including V8 sandboxes and the CPU's memory protection keys, to keep your data safe.
Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
Every Cloudflare feature, available to everyone
Cloudflare is making every feature available to any customer.
Quick Hit #59
A working draft for CSS Environment Variables is posted. Same concept as var(), but env() is a “global” variable at the document level for values the user
PostgreSQL: "UPDATE … RETURNING" made even better
This blog lets you test the RETURNING clause with updates in PostgreSQL 18, and allows you to have a look at practical scenario.
Bringing Figma Make to the canvas
Now you can copy any design from a Figma Make preview to the design canvas, allowing you to edit, iterate, and take your ideas further.
Building beyond the browser: Keeley Hammond on Electron, open source, and the future of maintainership
Learn what it really takes to sustain one of the web’s most widely used frameworks on this episode of the GitHub Podcast.
Giving users choice with Cloudflare’s new Content Signals Policy
Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy gives creators a new tool to control use of their content.
Securing today for the quantum future: WARP client now supports post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
To prepare for a future where powerful quantum computers come online, we've upgraded our WARP client with post-quantum cryptography. This protects both consumers and enterprises from adversaries that harvest Internet traffic now and then decrypt it in the future using powerful quantum computers.
To build a better Internet in the age of AI, we need responsible AI bot principles. Here’s our proposal.
We are proposing—as starting points—responsible AI bot principles that emphasize transparency, accountability, and respect for content access and use preferences. These are a launchpad for a larger conversation, and we recognize that there is work to be done to address many nuanced perspectives.
A simpler path to a safer Internet: an update to our CSAM scanning tool
Cloudflare has made it even easier to enable our free child safety tooling for all customers.
Securing data in SaaS to SaaS applications
The recent Salesloft breach taught us one thing: companies do not have visibility over data in SaaS applications. Cloudflare is committing to providing additional security tools to companies who use SaaS applications and downstream integrations.
The CYBERTEC Rubik’s Cube Get-Together 2025
This blog post gives an insight to the event CYBETEC's Rubik Cube which was a partner event connecting the community of PostgreSQL. Dive in.
GitHub Copilot gets smarter at finding your code: Inside our new embedding model
Learn about a new Copilot embedding model that makes code search in VS Code faster, lighter on memory, and far more accurate.
Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.
Video Streaming With the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices
Today, Meta, Vodafone, and Google released a white paper, “Video Streaming with the AV1 Video Codec in Mobile Devices,” detailing the benefits of the AV1 codec, an advanced video compression technique, to enhance the streaming video experience on mobile devices. The white paper recommends that: Vendors of core processors (SoCs) should evaluate the adoption of […]
Intent Prototyping: The Allure And Danger Of Pure Vibe Coding In Enterprise UX (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Yegor Gilyov examines the problem of over-reliance on static high-fidelity mockups, which often leave the conceptual model and user flows dangerously underdeveloped. He then explores whether AI-powered prototyping is the answer, questioning whether the path forward is the popular “vibe coding” approach or a more structured, intent-driven approach.
High-growth companies stand out with flexible pricing
Our recent survey of 2,000+ global business leaders showed that the fastest-growing companies are approaching pricing differently than their peers. Here are some of the strategies behind their success.
