2026-06-01
We investigated why firmware updates were causing our core servers to take four hours to reboot. By diving into UEFI data structures and iPXE automation, we eliminated unnecessary timeouts and cut boot times back down to minutes....
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2026-05-28
Here’s how we built Town Lake, Cloudflare's unified analytics platform, alongside Skipper, an internal AI agent running on top of it....
2026-05-27
Cloudflare Radar data confirms early indications of a partial Internet restoration in Iran, nearly three months after the shutdown began. Traffic spikes and DNS queries have risen, but network activity is currently just 40% of pre-shutdown levels....
2026-05-21
Cloudflare now integrates with the Claude Compliance API, so that security teams can monitor Claude Enterprise activity directly in the Cloudflare Dashboard. ...
2026-05-19
Cloudflare has integrated with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents to provide a fast, isolated execution environment for autonomous code delivery. This means builders can scale agent workflows globally while strictly controlling access to private backends and easily customizing their agent’s tools and runtimes....
2026-05-18
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale....
2026-05-14
When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner and built upstream patches to fix it....
2026-05-13
We’ve enabled higher usage limits, faster performance, better reliability, and increased shipping velocity for our Browser Run product by rebuilding on top of Cloudflare’s Containers. Here’s how....
2026-05-12
We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times from actual application idleness....
2026-05-07
This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare. ...
2026-05-07
When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirming zero customer impact and no malicious exploitation....
2026-05-06
On May 5, 2026, DENIC published broken DNSSEC signatures for the .de TLD, making millions of domains unreachable. Here's what 1.1.1.1 saw, how serve stale cushioned the impact, and how we restored resolution....
2026-05-01
We have completed a massive engineering effort to make our infrastructure more resilient. Through new tools like Snapstone and the Engineering Codex, we've implemented safer configuration changes and automated best practices to prevent future incidents....
2026-05-01
Dynamic Workflows is a library that lets you route durable execution to tenant-provided code on the fly. Built on Dynamic Workers, it enables platforms to serve millions of unique workflows at near-zero idle cost....
2026-04-30
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet....
2026-04-30
Starting today, agents can now be Cloudflare customers. They can create a Cloudflare account, start a paid subscription, register a domain, and get back an API token to deploy code right away. Humans can be in the loop to grant permission, but there’s no need to go to the dashboard, copy and paste API tokens, or enter credit card details. ...
2026-04-28
The first quarter of 2026 saw a surge in Internet disruptions, from nationwide shutdowns in Uganda and Iran to unprecedented drone strikes on cloud infrastructure. We explore the data behind these events using Cloudflare Radar....
2026-04-22
Panics in Rust Workers were historically fatal, poisoning the entire instance. By collaborating upstream on the wasm‑bindgen project, Rust Workers now support resilient critical error recovery, including panic unwinding using WebAssembly Exception Handling....
2026-04-21
As AI assistants and privacy proxies challenge the capabilities of traditional bot detection, the Web needs new models for accountability. We believe that control should remain with the client, and that an open ecosystem of anonymous credentials is key to preserving user privacy while protecting origins from abuse....
2026-04-20
Agents Week 2026 is a wrap. Let’s take a look at everything we announced, from compute and security to the agent toolbox, platform tools, and the emerging agentic web. Everything we shipped for the agentic cloud. ...
