Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2
May 19, 2023
For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)....
How Pingora keeps count
May 12, 2023
In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind ...
Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework
March 02, 2023
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language...
The state of HTTP in 2022
December 30, 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?...
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August 02, 2022
Load Balancing with Weighted Pools
Today, we’re excited to announce a frequently requested feature for our Load Balancer – Weighted Pools...
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November 23, 2021
Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application....
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October 13, 2021
Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects....
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October 05, 2021
Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies....
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September 17, 2021
Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google
We recently ran a measurement experiment where we used Real User Measurement (RUM) data from the standard browser API to test the performance of Cloudflare and others in real-world conditions across the globe....
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July 28, 2021
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins....
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July 27, 2021
Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013. ...
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April 14, 2021
Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers....
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March 19, 2021
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....
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March 16, 2021
Automatic Platform Optimization post-launch report
We explored almost 200 websites with the activated Automatic Platform Optimization feature in Chrome User Experience Report data. Automatic Platform Optimization consistently demonstrated better aggregate performance among sites we analyzed in TTFB, First Paint, FCP, and LCP metr...
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February 18, 2021
Tiered Cache Smart Topology
We are introducing a new topology for Tiered Cache that reduces origin load by increasing cache hit ratio....
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December 18, 2020
Computing Euclidean distance on 144 dimensions
Last year we deployed a CSAM image scanning tool. This is so cool! Image processing is always hard, and deploying a real image identification system at a Cloudflare scale is no small achievement! But we hit a problem - the matching algorithm was too slow for our needs....
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November 19, 2020
Improving Performance and Search Rankings with Cloudflare for Fun and Profit
Making things fast is one of the things we do at Cloudflare. More responsive websites, apps, APIs, and networks directly translate into improved conversion and user experience. ...
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September 30, 2020
Speeding up HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiation with... DNS
A look at a new DNS resource record intended to speed-up negotiation of HTTP security and performance features and how it will help make the web faster....
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