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Expanding Cloudflare's support for open source projects with Project Alexandria

2024-09-27

At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive....

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Expanding Cloudflare's support for open source projects with Project Alexandria

Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here’s an early look

2024-09-27

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We’ve been working on something new — a platform for running containers across Cloudflare’s network. We already use it in production, for AI inference and more. Today we want to share an early look at how it’s built, why we built it, and how we use it ourselves. ...

Advancing cybersecurity: Cloudflare implements a new bug bounty VIP program as part of CISA Pledge commitment

2024-09-27

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Cloudflare strengthens its commitment to cybersecurity by joining CISA's "Secure by Design" pledge. In line with this commitment, we're enhancing our vulnerability disclosure policy by launching a VIP bug bounty program, giving top researchers early access to our products. Keep an eye out for future updates regarding Cloudflare's CISA pledge as we work together to shape a safer digital future....

Empowering builders: introducing the Dev Alliance and Workers Launchpad Cohort #4

2024-09-27

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Empowering developers with the Dev Starter Pack and Workers Cohort #4: get free or discounted access to essential developer tools and meet the latest set of incredible startups building on Cloudflare....

Network trends and natural language: Cloudflare Radar’s new Data Explorer & AI Assistant

2024-09-27

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The Cloudflare Radar Data Explorer provides a simple Web-based interface to build more complex API queries, including comparisons and filters, and visualize the results. The accompanying AI Assistant translates a user’s natural language statements or questions into the appropriate Radar API calls....

AI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection

2024-09-27

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This year for Cloudflare’s birthday, we’ve extended our AI Assistant capabilities to help you build new WAF rules, added new AI bot & crawler traffic insights to Radar, and given customers new AI bot blocking capabilities...

Reaffirming our commitment to free

2024-09-27

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Today Cloudflare reaffirms its commitment to offering a robust Free service tier that continues to improve. We share why Free is a cornerstone of our business strategy, and how it contributes to building a better Internet. ...

Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform

2024-09-26

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To celebrate Builder Day 2024, we’re shipping 18 updates inspired by direct feedback from developers building on Cloudflare. This includes new capabilities, like running evals with AI Gateway, beta products like Queues and Vectorize graduating to GA, massive speed improvements to KV and Workers AI, pricing simplifications, and bringing key features from Pages into Workers....

Cloudflare’s bigger, better, faster AI platform

2024-09-26

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Whether you want the fastest inference at the edge, optimized AI workflows, or vector database-powered RAG, we’re excited to help you harness the full potential of AI and get started on building with Cloudflare....

Making Workers AI faster and more efficient: Performance optimization with KV cache compression and speculative decoding

2024-09-26

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With a new generation of data center accelerator hardware and using optimization techniques such as KV cache compression and speculative decoding, we’ve made large language model (LLM) inference lightning-fast on the Cloudflare Workers AI platform....

Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

2024-09-26

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Traditional cloud storage is inherently slow because it is accessed over a network and must synchronize many clients. But what if we could instead put your application code deep into the storage layer, such that your code runs where the data is stored? Durable Objects with SQLite do just that. ...

We made Workers KV up to 3x faster — here’s the data

2024-09-26

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Speed is a critical factor that dictates Internet behavior. Every additional millisecond a user spends waiting for your web page to load results in them abandoning your website. ...

Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster

2024-09-25

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We are excited to announce the latest leap forward in speed – Speed Brain. Speed Brain uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content for the user's likely next navigations. The goal is to download a web page to the browser before a user navigates to it, allowing pages to load instantly. ...

New standards for a faster and more private Internet

2024-09-25

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Cloudflare's customers can now take advantage of Zstandard (zstd) compression, offering 42% faster compression than Brotli and 11.3% more efficiency than GZIP. We're further optimizing performance for our customers with HTTP/3 prioritization and BBR congestion control, and enhancing privacy through Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)....

TURN and anycast: making peer connections work globally

2024-09-25

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TURN servers help relay media and data between devices when direct peer-to-peer connections are blocked or fail. Cloudflare Calls' TURN server uses anycast to eliminate the need to think about regions or scaling, improving reliability of WebRTC applications....

Cloudflare’s 12th Generation servers — 145% more performant and 63% more efficient

2024-09-25

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Cloudflare is thrilled to announce the general deployment of our next generation of server — Gen 12 powered by AMD Genoa-X processors. This new generation of server focuses on delivering exceptional performance across all Cloudflare services, enhanced support for AI/ML workloads, significant strides in power efficiency, and improved security features....

Instant Purge: invalidating cached content in under 150ms

2024-09-24

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Today we’re excited to share that we’ve built the fastest cache purge in the industry. We now offer a global purge latency for purge by tags, hostnames, and prefixes of less than 150ms on average (P50), representing a 90% improvement since May 2022. ...

Cloudflare partners with Internet Service Providers and network equipment providers to deliver a safer browsing experience to millions of homes

2024-09-24

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Cloudflare is extending the use of our public DNS resolver through partnering with ISPs and network providers to deliver a safer browsing experience directly to families. Join us in protecting every Internet user from unsafe content with the click of a button, powered by 1.1.1.1 for Families....

Automatically generating Cloudflare’s Terraform provider

2024-09-24

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The Cloudflare Terraform provider used to be manually maintained. With the help of our existing OpenAPI code generation pipeline, we’re now automatically generating the provider for better endpoint and attribute coverage, faster updates when new products are announced and a new API documentation site to top it all off. Read on to see how we pulled it all together....

A safer Internet with Cloudflare: free threat intelligence, analytics, and new threat detections

2024-09-24

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Today, we are taking some big steps forward in our mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is giving everyone free access to 10+ different website and network security products and features....

Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp

2024-09-24

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Cloudflare is now verifying WhatsApp’s Key Transparency audit proofs to ensure the security of end-to-end encrypted messaging conversations without having to manually check QR codes. We are publishing the results of the proof verification to https://dash.key-transparency.cloudflare.com for independent researchers and security experts to compare against WhatsApp’s. Cloudflare does not have access to underlying public key material or message metadata as part of this infrastructure....