Getting to the Core: Benchmarking Cloudflare’s Latest Server Hardware
November 20, 2020 12:00PM
A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements....
Tracing System CPU on Debian Stretch
May 13, 2018 5:00PM
Speed & Reliability Kafka eBPF LinuxHow an innocent OS upgrade triggered a cascade of issues and forced us into tracing Linux networking internals....
HTTP Analytics for 6M requests per second using ClickHouse
March 06, 2018 10:13PM
Analytics Data Speed & Reliability Kafka Cap'n ProtoOne of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:...
Squeezing the firehose: getting the most from Kafka compression
March 05, 2018 4:17PM
Compression Speed & Reliability KafkaHow Cloudflare was able to save hundreds of gigabits of network bandwidth and terabytes of storage from Kafka....
Scaling out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics using CitusDB
April 09, 2015 6:32PM
Analytics SQL Postgres Kafka LUAWhen I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits....
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