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A deep dive into how D1 architected its control plane to scale and manage millions of databases, while keeping data plane query operations at the edge. We share guiding principles on how to build on the Developer Platform effectively.
We built a WAF tester that adapted each request based on what the WAF blocked or passed. This helped us explore variations that a fixed test might miss. We ran it across six attack categories on an authorized staging environment and discovered detection gaps worth fixing. Here’s how the loop worked, what got through, and what we did about it.
Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
This post explores the performance of BPF LPM tries, a critical data structure used for IP matching.
There's no way to audit a site’s client-side code as it changes, making it hard to trust sites that use cryptography. We preview a specification we co-authored that adds auditability to the web.
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX.
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.
D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. Here's a deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions.
Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. Let's dive deeper, in celebration of its availability for Free Plan customers.
Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.
The Linux kernel can produce a hung task warning. Searching the Internet and the kernel docs, you can find a brief explanation that the process is stuck in the uninterruptible state.
Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind the approach and some of the designs.
Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) leverages multiple network interfaces, like Wi-Fi and cellular, to provide seamless mobility for more reliable connectivity. While promising, MPTCP is still in its early stages,
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels.
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.
Cloudflare's Vectorize is now generally available, offering faster responses, lower pricing, a free tier, and supporting up to 5 million vectors.
