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How Cloudflare Uses CDN

53 engineering articles about CDN from Cloudflare's engineering team

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Cloudflare has enhanced its network performance and security by rebuilding its core software components using Rust, achieving a median response time improvement of 10ms and a 25% performance boost.
Richard Boulton
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Cloudflare is sponsoring two open source projects, Ladybird and Omarchy, to promote a healthier ecosystem for the open web.
Mari Galicer
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The article celebrates Micro-, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Day, highlighting the significant impact these businesses have on the global economy.
Jocelyn Woolbright
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Cloudflare has revamped its Startup Program, offering startups up to $250,000 in credits to utilize on its Developer Platform.
Christopher Rotas
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This article discusses the general availability of the Browser Rendering API for all paid Cloudflare Workers customers, introduces session management features, and announces the rollout of Cloudfla...
Tanushree Sharma
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The article discusses the unique nature of environment variables in Cloudflare Workers, highlighting how they can contain live objects rather than just strings.
Kenton Varda
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The article discusses how Prisma successfully reduced its engine distribution costs by 98% by migrating from AWS S3 and CloudFront to Cloudflare R2.
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Cloudflare has introduced a new pricing model for Cloudflare Workers and Pages Functions, charging based on CPU time instead of idle time spent waiting for I/O.
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Developer Week 2023 showcased Cloudflare's advancements in developer tools and AI capabilities, featuring 34 posts that highlight new products, features, and tutorials.
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The article announces Cohort #2 of the Workers Launchpad, highlighting the success of the first cohort and introducing 25 new startups selected for the program.
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The article discusses the performance advantages of Cloudflare R2 over Amazon S3, particularly in terms of response times for serving media content.
David Tuber
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The article discusses Cloudflare's evolution into a comprehensive platform for deploying and running web applications, highlighting new features like the integration of Cloudflare Workers and Pages...
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The article discusses the convergence of Cloudflare Workers and Pages into a unified developer experience, aimed at simplifying the development process for serverless applications.
Nevi Shah
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Cloudflare has updated its Terms of Service to better align with its evolving services and reduce customer confusion.
Eugene Kim
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Developer Week 2023 marks an exciting time for developers, showcasing advancements in frameworks, libraries, and AI-powered tools that enhance coding efficiency.
Ricky Robinett
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The article summarizes the key announcements made during Developer Week 2022, highlighting 31 posts that cover product announcements, technical deep dives, and customer stories related to Cloudflar...
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The article discusses the Twilio Segment Edge SDK, which is built on Cloudflare Workers to enhance the collection of first-party data and enable personalized user experiences.
Pooya Jaferian (Guest Blogger)
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The article discusses the introduction of AV1 codec support for live video streaming on Cloudflare Stream, highlighting its benefits in reducing bandwidth usage and improving video quality.
Renan Dincer
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Cloudflare's Startup Plan v2. 0 is designed to support early-stage startups by providing access to essential products and services.
Jade Q. Wang
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Cloudflare has announced that Stream Live is now generally available, allowing developers to easily integrate live video features into their websites and applications.
Brendan Irvine-Broque
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The article summarizes the announcements made during Cloudflare's Platform Week, highlighting enhancements to their Developer Platform, including compute, storage, and developer services.
Dawn Parzych
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The article announces Cloudflare's Workers for Platforms, a tool suite designed to make applications on the Internet more programmable.
Rita Kozlov
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The article introduces Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events, a new feature aimed at enhancing visibility into applications built on Cloudflare Workers.
Tanushree Sharma
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The article announces the Spring Developer Speaker Series hosted by Cloudflare, featuring expert speakers discussing various topics in web development.
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Cloudflare has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Commercial CDN 2022 Vendor Assessment, highlighting its innovative capabilities and extensive product offerings.
Vivek Ganti
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The article discusses how Zaraz utilizes Cloudflare Workers to enhance the security and performance of third-party tools on websites.
Yo'av Moshe
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Cloudflare for SaaS is now generally available, providing a comprehensive solution for SaaS providers to enhance performance, security, and scalability.
Dina Kozlov
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Cloudflare R2 Storage is a new object storage solution designed to eliminate egress fees while providing developers with a reliable and scalable platform for storing unstructured data.
Greg McKeon
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Cloudflare has announced the beta launch of Cloudflare Images, a service designed to simplify the image pipeline by providing storage, resizing, optimization, and delivery capabilities at scale.
Zaid Farooqui
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Cloudflare has acquired Linc, an automation platform aimed at enhancing collaboration for front-end developers.
Aly Cabral
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This article discusses how to build e-commerce experiences for Black Friday using JAMstack and Cloudflare Workers, highlighting the benefits of serverless architecture and the integration of modern...
Kristian Freeman
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This article discusses the implementation of Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress using Cloudflare Workers, which allows WordPress plugins to run at the edge.
Yevgen Safronov
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The article discusses the recent involvement of Cloudflare in managing CDNJS, a popular content delivery network that hosts JavaScript libraries like jQuery.
Zack Bloom
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The article introduces the HTMLRewriter API for Cloudflare Workers, which is now generally available.
Rita Kozlov
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The article discusses Cloudflare Workers Sites, a platform that allows developers to deploy entire websites directly to the edge of the Internet, enhancing performance and scalability.
Rita Kozlov
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This article features a conversation with Ray Rothrock, a former director at Sun Microsystems, discussing the evolution of the internet and the significance of the phrase 'The Network is the Comput...
John Graham-Cumming
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The article discusses Cloudflare's capabilities in facilitating multi-cloud operations, emphasizing its Load Balancing, Argo Tunnel, and Access Control features.
Zack Bloom
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Cloudflare's Workers KV is a globally distributed, eventually consistent key-value store designed for ultra-fast data retrieval.
Ashcon Partovi
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The article discusses the benefits and implementation of Cloudflare Workers, highlighting how Quintype leverages this technology to enhance their content delivery network (CDN).
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The article discusses the collaboration between SamKnows and Cloudflare to enhance internet performance measurement through the use of Cloudflare Workers.
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This article discusses the importance of improving the Time to First Byte (TTFB) for web performance, highlighting how a slow TTFB negatively impacts user experience.
Patrick Meenan (Guest Author)
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The article discusses Cloudflare's cloud computing platform, Workers, which operates without containers or virtual machines, utilizing a technology called Isolates.
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The article discusses the enhancement of RubyDocs using Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV to improve documentation accessibility for Ruby projects.
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The article discusses the introduction of Workers KV, a distributed key-value store integrated with Cloudflare Workers, enabling low-latency data storage across a global network.
Stephen Pinkerton
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The article discusses the optimization of caching for the Pwned Passwords API, focusing on the implementation of a k-Anonymity model to enhance security and caching efficiency.
Junade Ali
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