Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
2024-10-29
DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....
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Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
2024-10-25
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature....
Supporting Postgres Named Prepared Statements in Hyperdrive
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Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for Postgres protocol-level named prepared statements across pooled connections. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature...
Introducing Relational Database Connectors
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Customers can connect to a Postgres or MySQL database directly from their Workers using a Cloudflare Tunnel today. In the future, you can use Database Connectors to achieve this natively using a standardized Socket API....
Modernizing a familiar approach to REST APIs, with PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers
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By using PostgREST with Postgres, we can build REST API-based applications. In particular, it's an excellent fit for Cloudflare Workers, our serverless function platform. Workers is a great place to build REST APIs....
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