2024-10-31
Post-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network....
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2024-09-30
Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week....
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
July 25, 2024 1:00 PM
In this post, we discuss the performance optimizations we've implemented for our WAF ML product. We'll guide you through specific code examples and benchmark numbers, and we'll share the impressive latency reduction numbers observed after the rollout...
May 14, 2024 1:00 PM
Golang 1.20 introduced support for Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) to the go compiler. This post covers the process we created for experimenting with PGO at Cloudflare, and measuring the CPU savings...
February 28, 2024 3:00 PM
Pingora, our framework for building programmable and memory-safe network services, is now open source. Get started using Pingora today...
February 08, 2024 2:00 PM
This is our story of what we learned about the connect() implementation for TCP in Linux. Both its strong and weak points. How connect() latency changes under pressure, and how to open connection so that the syscall latency is deterministic and time-bound...
October 25, 2023 1:00 PM
We're excited to announce the graduation of Cache Reserve from beta to GA, accompanied by the introduction of several exciting new features. These new features include adding Cache Reserve into the analytics shown on the Cache overview section of the Cloudflare dashboard...
October 24, 2023 1:00 PM
Today, we're thrilled to share that Cache Rules, along with several other Rules products, are generally available (GA). But that’s not all — we're also introducing new configuration options for Cache Rules...
June 23, 2023 1:00 PM
Pages is now the fastest way to serve your sites across Netlify, Vercel and many others and we’re so proud...
June 23, 2023 1:00 PM
The new Internet Quality page on Cloudflare Radar provides both country and network (autonomous system) level insight into Internet connection performance (bandwidth) and quality (latency, jitter) over time based on benchmark test data as well as speed.cloudflare.com test results...
June 22, 2023 1:00 PM
The Cloudflare dashboard is a single page application that houses all of the UI for our wide portfolio of existing products, as well as the new features we're releasing every day...
June 21, 2023 1:01 PM
Cloudflare is the fastest Secure Web Gateway in 42% of testing scenarios, the most of any provider. Cloudflare is 46% faster than Zscaler, 56% faster than Netskope, and 10% faster than Palo Alto for ZTNA, and 64% faster than Zscaler for RBI scenarios...
June 21, 2023 1:00 PM
In this post we’ll be talking about some of the architecture improvements we’ve made so far for Cache Purge and what we’re working on now...
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Time To First Byte (TTFB) is not a good way to measure your websites performance. In this blog we’ll cover what TTFB is a good indicator of, what it's not great for, and what you should be using instead...
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
If you care about the performance of your website or APIs, it’s critical to understand why things are slow. Today we're introducing new analytics tools to help you understand what is contributing to "Time to First Byte" (TTFB) of Cloudflare and your origin...
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare's Performance Experiments in Observatory: Safely test code, improve website speed, and minimize risk...
June 20, 2023 1:00 PM
Today, Cloudflare is super excited to announce that we’re bringing traffic acceleration to customer’s UDP traffic. Now, you can improve the latency of UDP-based applications like video games, voice calls, and video meetings by up to 17%...
