2026-04-17
By migrating our request handling layer to a Rust-based architecture called FL2, Cloudflare has increased its performance lead to 60% of the world’s top networks. We use real-user measurements and connection trimeans to ensure our data reflects the actual experience of people on the Internet....
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2026-03-23
Cloudflare’s Gen 13 servers double our compute throughput by rethinking the balance between cache and cores. Moving to high-core-count AMD EPYC ™ Turin CPUs, we traded large L3 cache for raw compute density. By running our new Rust-based FL2 stack, we completely mitigated the latency penalty to unlock twice the performance....
2026-02-13
ecdysis is a Rust library enabling zero-downtime upgrades for network services. After five years protecting millions of connections at Cloudflare, it’s now open source....
2026-01-27
As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography....
2025-12-18
Cloudflare’s R2 SQL, a distributed query engine, now supports aggregations. Explore how we built distributed GROUP BY execution, using scatter-gather and shuffling strategies to run analytics directly over your R2 Data Catalog....
October 28, 2025
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships....
September 26, 2025
We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. ...
September 25, 2025
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....
July 24, 2025
Build and deploy real-time, decentralized Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) apps on Cloudflare Workers....
April 11, 2025
Learn about recent developments in Certificate Transparency (CT), and how we built a next-generation CT log on top of Cloudflare's Developer Platform....
December 30, 2024
h3i is a command line tool and Rust library designed for low-level testing and debugging of HTTP/3, which runs over QUIC....
October 25, 2024
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels....
September 10, 2024
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU ...
August 22, 2024
We’re excited to announce wildcard support across our Ruleset Engine-based products and our open-source wildcard crate in Rust. Configuring rules has never been easier, with powerful pattern matching enabling simple and flexible URL redirects and beyond for users on all plans....
July 25, 2024
In this post, we discuss performance optimizations we've implemented for our WAF ML product. We'll guide you through code examples, benchmarks, and we'll share the impressive latency reduction numbers...
February 28, 2024
Pingora, our framework for building programmable and memory-safe network services, is now open source. Get started using Pingora today...
January 24, 2024
Foundations is a foundational Rust library, designed to help scale programs for distributed, production-grade systems...
August 14, 2023
Debugging Rust and Wasm with Cloudflare Workers involves a lot of the good old time-consuming and nerve-wracking printf'ing strategy. What if there’s a better way? This blog is about enabling and using Wasm core dumps and how you can easily debug Rust in Cloudflare Workers...
June 19, 2023
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...
June 19, 2023
How we optimized bot management’s machine learning model execution...
