Part 2: Rethinking cache purge with a new architecture
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Are you measuring what matters? A fresh look at Time To First Byte
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is not a good way to measure your websites performance. In this blog we’ll cover what TTFB is a good indicator of, what it's not great for, and what you should be using instead...
Introducing Timing Insights: new performance metrics via our GraphQL API
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If you care about the performance of your website or APIs, it’s critical to understand why things are slow. Today we're introducing new analytics tools to help you understand what is contributing to "Time to First Byte" (TTFB) of Cloudflare and your origin...
How to use Cloudflare Observatory for performance experiments
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Introducing Cloudflare's Performance Experiments in Observatory: Safely test code, improve website speed, and minimize risk...
Argo Smart Routing for UDP: speeding up gaming, real-time communications and more
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%...
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Every request, every microsecond: scalable machine learning at Cloudflare
We'll describe the technical strategies that have enabled us to expand the number of machine learning features and models, all while substantially reducing the processing time for each HTTP request on our network...
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Cloudflare is deprecating Railgun
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May 19, 2023 1:00 PM
Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2
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How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
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Announcing Argo for Spectrum
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Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
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September 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google
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Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
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Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
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