A deep dive into BPF LPM trie performance and optimization
2025-10-21
This post explores the performance of BPF LPM tries, a critical data structure used for IP matching. ...
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Improving the trustworthiness of Javascript on the Web
2025-10-16
There's no way to audit a site’s client-side code as it changes, making it hard to trust sites that use cryptography. We preview a specification we co-authored that adds auditability to the web....
How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler
2025-10-08
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed....
Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust
2025-09-26
We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX. ...
R2 SQL: a deep dive into our new distributed query engine
2025-09-25
R2 SQL provides a built-in, serverless way to run ad-hoc analytic queries against your R2 Data Catalog. This post dives deep under the Iceberg into how we built this distributed engine....
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Sequential consistency without borders: how D1 implements global read replication
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Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why we’re making it free
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Searching for the cause of hung tasks in the Linux kernel
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Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data
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Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time
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Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
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Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks
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How we ensure Cloudflare customers aren't affected by Let's Encrypt's certificate chain change
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Linux kernel security tunables everyone should consider adopting
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