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How Cloudflare Uses Rust

53 engineering articles about Rust from Cloudflare's engineering team

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The article discusses the development of vinext, a new front-end framework that serves as a drop-in replacement for Next. js, built using Vite and designed for deployment on Cloudflare Workers.
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The article discusses the ecdysis library developed by Cloudflare, which enables graceful restarts for Rust services without dropping live connections.
Manuel Olguín Muñoz
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The article reflects on Cloudflare's 15-year journey and the initiatives launched during Birthday Week 2025, emphasizing their commitment to building a better Internet.
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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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The article discusses how Cloudflare leverages its extensive performance data to enhance the speed and efficiency of its global network.
Steve Goldsmith
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The article discusses the development of AI face cropping technology by Cloudflare, which automatically crops images around detected faces.
Deanna Lam
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Cloudflare has announced the General Availability of Log Explorer, a new product that integrates observability and forensics capabilities into the Cloudflare dashboard.
Jen Sells
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Cloudflare Snippets are now generally available, providing a fast and flexible way to control HTTP traffic using lightweight JavaScript code rules at no extra cost for all paid plans.
Nikita Cano
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The article discusses the development of Vectorize, a distributed vector database built on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
Jérôme Schneider
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Cloudflare has developed a new container platform that leverages GPUs for running various applications across its global network.
Brendan Irvine-Broque
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The article discusses significant performance improvements to Cloudflare's Workers KV, achieving up to 3x faster hot reads and reducing overall KV operation latency by up to 20 milliseconds.
Thomas Gauvin
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The article discusses the introduction of wildcard support in Cloudflare's Ruleset Engine, allowing users to create dynamic URL patterns for better traffic management.
Nikita Cano
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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 integration of Python into Cloudflare Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly, enabling developers to write serverless applications in Python.
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The article announces the open sourcing of Pingora, a Rust framework developed by Cloudflare for building programmable network services.
Yuchen Wu
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The article introduces Foundations, an open-source Rust service foundation library developed by Cloudflare, designed to simplify the creation of distributed, production-grade systems.
Ivan Nikulin
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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.
Pierre-Antoine Mills (Guest Author)
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The article discusses the introduction of WebGPU support in Cloudflare Workers, highlighting its significance for developers in creating high-performance applications.
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The article discusses the implementation of WebAssembly (Wasm) core dumps and debugging Rust applications in Cloudflare Workers.
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This article discusses Cloudflare's advancements in scalable machine learning, focusing on the technical strategies that have improved processing times for HTTP requests while enhancing security th...
Alex Bocharov
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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 how Cloudflare is transitioning its architecture to utilize Cloudflare Workers, aiming to enhance the performance, robustness, and developer experience of its products.
Richard Boulton
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The article discusses how Cloudflare's Workers for Platforms is empowering SaaS businesses by providing customizable serverless solutions.
Nathan Disidore
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The article discusses the introduction of WebAssembly (Wasm) support for Cloudflare Pages Functions, enabling developers to build server-side applications using languages other than JavaScript.
Carmen Popoviciu
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The article discusses how Cloudflare uses machine learning to automatically discover API endpoints and generate schemas for its API Gateway customers.
John Cosgrove
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The article discusses Cloudflare Stream's new feature that enables live video streaming over WebRTC with sub-second latency, allowing unlimited viewers.
Kyle Boutette
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Cloudflare has announced experimental support for the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) on Cloudflare Workers, enhancing the WebAssembly ecosystem.
Ben Yule
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Miniflare 2. 0 is a fully-local development and testing tool for Cloudflare Workers, enhancing the developer experience with modular design, reduced package size, and improved accuracy.
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This article discusses the automation of type generation for Cloudflare Workers, addressing the challenges of maintaining accurate type definitions in Rust and TypeScript.
Brendan Coll
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This article discusses the implementation of the Cloudflare Images product using Rust libraries and Cloudflare Workers.
Yevgen Safronov
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The article discusses the introduction of native Rust support on Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to write Workers entirely in Rust without needing JavaScript.
Steve Manuel
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This article explores the concepts of Pin and Unpin in Rust, explaining their significance in ensuring memory safety for self-referential types, particularly in asynchronous programming.
Adam Chalmers
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Cloudflare Workers® has introduced significant enhancements to streamline the development experience, including a new JavaScript editor at workers.
Ashcon Partovi
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The article discusses the introduction of asynchronous handlers in HTMLRewriter for Cloudflare Workers, enabling developers to perform asynchronous tasks while transforming HTML on the edge.
Ashcon Partovi
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The article discusses the security model of Cloudflare Workers, focusing on mitigating vulnerabilities like Spectre and V8 bugs.
Kenton Varda
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The article discusses Cloudflare's Bot Management platform, focusing on its integration of machine learning and various detection mechanisms to combat malicious bot traffic.
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The article discusses the evolution of the development environment for Cloudflare Workers, highlighting the author's journey from an intern to a full-time developer.
Avery Harnish
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The article discusses the development of the Built with Workers site using the JAMstack architecture on Cloudflare Workers.
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This article discusses the evolution of HTML parsing at Cloudflare, focusing on the development of LOL HTML, a streaming HTML rewriter/parser built in Rust.
Andrew Galloni
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The article discusses the enhancements made to the Wrangler CLI for Cloudflare Workers, particularly the introduction of the Live Preview feature in version 1. 2. 0.
Matt Alonso
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The article discusses enhancements to the developer experience for Cloudflare Workers, introducing a new CLI called Wrangler, improved documentation, and a free tier for experimentation.
Rita Kozlov
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The article discusses the latest developments in the serverless space, focusing on Rust and WebAssembly (WASM), cloud cost optimization techniques, and new developer tutorials.
Connor Peshek
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The article discusses how Cloudflare builds serverless applications using Workers, emphasizing the transition from simple deployments to more complex, source-controlled environments.
Jonathan Spies
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The article introduces Wrangler, a CLI tool designed for building, previewing, and publishing Rust and WebAssembly applications on Cloudflare Workers.
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This article explores the applications of Cloudflare Workers in enhancing technical SEO, addressing common obstacles faced by developers and SEO consultants.
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The article discusses the development of a fast interpreter for Wireshark-like filters using Rust, focusing on the design and implementation of a configurable library.
Ingvar Stepanyan
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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 how to use Rust with Cloudflare Workers to create serverless applications.
Steven Pack
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The article discusses the integration of WebAssembly (WASM) into Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to enhance their applications with compiled languages like C, C++, and Rust.
Kenton Varda
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