2025-04-08
Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. Let's dive deeper, in celebration of its availability for Free Plan customers....
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2025-01-27
Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind our approach and some of the designs of ...
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....
2024-06-28
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...
2017-11-13
We are now 3 months on from one of the biggest, most significant data breaches in history, but has it redefined people's awareness on security?...
May 17, 2016 1:07 PM
From time to time a customer writes in and asks about certain requests that have been blocked by the CloudFlare WAF. Recently, a customer couldn’t understand why it appeared that some simple GET requests for their homepage were listed as blocked in WAF analytics....
April 09, 2015 5:32 PM
When 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. ...
October 16, 2014 9:05 AM
Yesterday the Drupal Security Team released a critical security patch for Drupal 7 that fixes a very serious SQL injection vulnerability....
July 08, 2013 6:00 AM
CloudFlare has Points of Presence (PoPs) in 23 datacenters around the world and plans to expand to many more soon. It also has a single portal, CloudFlare.com, where website owners interact with the system. ...
April 22, 2011 7:49 PM
Last night CloudFlare hosted a Hybrid DB meetup where Ian Pye, our lead Analytics Engineer, presented on the data infrastructure at CloudFlare. He discussed how CloudFlare looked at several NoSQL and SQL solutions and ended up with a hybrid model, SortaSQL....
