2024-09-27

This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot & crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot blocking capabilities...

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  Adam Martinetti
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  Harsh Saxena
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  Gauri Baraskar
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  Carlos Azevedo
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  David Belson

2024-09-27

At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive....

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  Veronica Marin
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  Gabby Shires

2024-09-26

To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. This includes new capabilities, like running evals with AI Gateway, beta products like Queues and Vectorize graduating to GA, massive speed improvements to KV and Workers AI, pricing simplifications, and bringing key features from Pages into Workers....

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  Tanushree Sharma
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  Rohin Lohe
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  Anni Wang
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  Nevi Shah

2024-09-26

Whether you want the fastest inference at the edge, optimized AI workflows, or vector database-powered RAG, we’re excited to help you harness the full potential of AI and get started on building with Cloudflare....

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  Michelle Chen
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  Kathy Liao
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  Phil Wittig

2024-09-26

Speed is a critical factor that dictates Internet behavior. Every additional millisecond a user spends waiting for your web page to load results in them abandoning your website. ...

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  Thomas Gauvin
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  Rob Sutter
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  Andrew Plunk

2024-09-26

With a new generation of data center accelerator hardware and using optimization techniques such as KV cache compression and speculative decoding, we’ve made large language model (LLM) inference lightning-fast on the Cloudflare Workers AI platform....

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  Isaac Rehg
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  Jesse Kipp

2024-09-26

Traditional cloud storage is inherently slow because it is accessed over a network and must synchronize many clients. But what if we could instead put your application code deep into the storage layer, such that your code runs where the data is stored? Durable Objects with SQLite do just that. ...

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  Kenton Varda

2024-09-26

Cloudflare’s Startup Program now offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform. The program relaunch uses clear and predictable credits so that you can easily see how usage impacts future pricing. ...

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  Christopher Rotas
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  Melissa Kargiannakis

2024-09-25

We are excited to announce the latest leap forward in speed – Speed Brain. Speed Brain uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content for the user's likely next navigations. The goal is to download a web page to the browser before a user navigates to it, allowing pages to load instantly. ...

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  Alex Krivit
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  Suleman Ahmad
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  William Woodhead

2024-09-25

Cloudflare is thrilled to announce the general deployment of our next generation of server — Gen 12 powered by AMD Genoa-X processors. This new generation of server focuses on delivering exceptional performance across all Cloudflare services, enhanced support for AI/ML workloads, significant strides in power efficiency, and improved security features....

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  JQ Lau
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  Ma Xiong
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  Syona Sarma

2024-09-25

TURN servers help relay media and data between devices when direct peer-to-peer connections are blocked or fail. Cloudflare Calls' TURN server uses anycast to eliminate the need to think about regions or scaling, improving reliability of WebRTC applications....

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  Nils Ohlmeier
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  Renan Dincer

2024-09-25

Cloudflare's customers can now take advantage of Zstandard (zstd) compression, offering 42% faster compression than Brotli and 11.3% more efficiency than GZIP. We're further optimizing performance for our customers with HTTP/3 prioritization and BBR congestion control, and enhancing privacy through Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)....

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  Matt Bullock
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  Maciej Lechowski
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  Rushil Mehra

2024-09-24

Today we’re excited to share that we’ve built the fastest cache purge in the industry. We now offer a global purge latency for purge by tags, hostnames, and prefixes of less than 150ms on average (P50), representing a 90% improvement since May 2022. ...

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  Alex Krivit
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  Tim Kornhammar
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  Connor Harwood

2024-09-24

Cloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp’s Key Transparency audit proofs to ensure the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging conversations without having to manually check QR codes. We are publishing the results of the proof verification to https://dash.key-transparency.cloudflare.com for independent researchers and security experts to compare against WhatsApp’s. Cloudflare does not have access to underlying public key material or message metadata as part of this infrastructure....

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  Thibault Meunier
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  Mari Galicer

2024-09-24

The Cloudflare Terraform provider used to be manually maintained. With the help of our existing OpenAPI code generation pipeline, we’re now automatically generating the provider for better endpoint and attribute coverage, faster updates when new products are announced and a new API documentation site to top it all off. Read on to see how we pulled it all together....

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  Jacob Bednarz

2024-09-24

Today, we are taking some big steps forward in our mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is giving everyone free access to 10+ different website and network security products and features....

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  Michael Tremante
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  Reid Tatoris

2024-09-24

Cloudflare is extending the use of our public DNS resolver through partnering with ISPs and network providers to deliver a safer browsing experience directly to families. Join us in protecting every Internet user from unsafe content with the click of a button, powered by 1.1.1.1 for Families....

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  Kelly May Johnston
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  Morgan Steffen

2024-09-23

Since June 2021, we’ve been measuring and ranking our network performance against the top global networks in the world. We use this data to improve our performance, and to share the results of those initiatives. In this post, we’re going to share with you how network performance has changed since our last post in March 2024, and discuss the tools and processes we are using to assess network performance. ...

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  Emily Music

2024-09-23

As the Internet evolves, Turnstile does too. Introducing Ephemeral IDs — a new dimension in detecting fraudulent activity, bot or human, that links behavior to a specific client instead of an IP address. This makes Turnstile better for everyone, everywhere. ...

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  Oliver Payne
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  Sally Lee
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  Benedikt Wolters

2024-09-23

In response to customer demand, we now support the ability to DELETE, PATCH, PUT and POST multiple DNS records in a single API call, enabling more efficient and reliable zone management. ...

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  Alex Fattouche