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May 19, 2023 1:00 PM
Developer Week Performance Update: Spotlight on R2
For Developer Week 2023, we’re going to be looking at one of the newest Cloudflare developer offerings and how it compares to an alternative when retrieving assets from buckets: R2 versus Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)....
May 12, 2023 1:00 PM
How Pingora keeps count
In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind them...
March 02, 2023 3:05 PM
Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language...
December 30, 2022 2:00 PM
The state of HTTP in 2022
So what happened at all of those working group meetings, specification documents, and side events in 2022? What are implementers and deployers of the web’s protocol doing? And what’s coming next?...
September 14, 2022 1:00 PM
How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day...
August 02, 2022 1:00 PM
Load Balancing with Weighted Pools
Today, we’re excited to announce a frequently requested feature for our Load Balancer – Weighted Pools...
November 23, 2021 1:58 PM
Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application....
October 13, 2021 12:59 PM
Coalescing Connections to Improve Network Privacy and Performance
Real world experiments for evaluating connection coalescing effects....
October 05, 2021 12:58 PM
Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies....
September 17, 2021 1:00 PM
Benchmarking Edge Network Performance: Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Google
We recently ran a measurement experiment where we used Real User Measurement (RUM) data from the standard browser API to test the performance of Cloudflare and others in real-world conditions across the globe....
July 28, 2021 12:59 PM
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins....
July 27, 2021 12:59 PM
Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013. ...
April 14, 2021 1:01 PM
Improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers Unbound
Google’s new page experience measurements are going to be included in their search ranking in May 2021. Learn more about how to improve your page experience with AMP and Cloudflare Workers....
March 19, 2021 12:00 PM
Third Time’s the Cache, No More
Up until now, we wouldn’t cache requests with query strings until we saw them three times. We trace that behavior back to 2010, examine why we might have needed it, and show ourselves why we don’t need it anymore....