2024-10-29

The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. ...

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  David Belson

2024-10-25

Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels....

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  Andrew Repp
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  Emilio Assunção
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  Abhishek Chanda

2024-10-24

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....

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  Sid Chatterjee
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  Matt Silverlock
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  Celso Martinho

2024-10-24

How we scaled AI Gateway to handle and store billions of requests, using Cloudflare Workers, D1, Durable Objects, and R2....

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  Catarina Pires Mota
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  Gabriel Massadas
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  Nelson Duarte

2024-10-24

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....

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  Josh Wheeler
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  Siddhant Sinha
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  Todd Mantell
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  Pranshu Maheshwari

2024-10-23

The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY....

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  Omer Yoachimik
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  Jorge Pacheco

2024-10-23

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. ...

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  Sharon Goldberg
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  Ann Ming Samborski
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  Sebby Lipman

2024-10-23

In this 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....

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  Nick Wood
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  Manish Arora

2024-10-22

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....

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  Nnamdi Ajah
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  Ryan Chow
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  Giovanni Pereira Zantedeschi

2024-10-22

Cloudflare's Vectorize is now generally available, offering faster responses, lower pricing, a free tier, and supporting up to 5 million vectors....

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  Jérôme Schneider
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  Alex Graham

2024-10-17

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....

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  Yusuke Wada

2024-10-15

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....

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  JQ Lau
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  Syona Sarma

2024-10-15

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....

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  Noelle Kagan
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  Andrew Meyer
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  James Chang
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  Gavin Chen
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  Matt Davis

2024-10-10

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. ...

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  CJ Desai

2024-10-09

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. ...

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  Guy Nir
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  Dong Zhang
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  Erin Shea

2024-10-09

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 ...

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  Opeyemi Onikute

2024-10-08

The acquisition of Kivera broadens the scope of Cloudflare’s SASE platform beyond just apps, incorporating increased cloud security through proactive configuration management of cloud services. ...

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  Noelle Kagan
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  Neil Brown
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  Yumna Moazzam

2024-10-08

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....

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  Justin Cichra

2024-10-07

Great thermal solutions play a crucial role in hardware reliability and performance. Gen 12 servers have implemented an exhaustive thermal analysis to ensure optimal operations within a wide variety of temperature conditions and use cases. By implementing new design and control features for improved power efficiency on the compute nodes we also enabled the support of powerful accelerators to serve our customers....

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  Leslye Paniagua

2024-10-06

Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator lets users create and manage security.txt files. Enhance vulnerability disclosure, align with industry standards, and integrate into the dashboard....

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  Alexandra Moraru
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  Sam Khawasé