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How did John's implementation of Cloudflare impact the client's ability to handle traffic spikes?
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John's implementation of Cloudflare significantly enhanced the client's ability to handle traffic spikes. Cloudflare's global CDN distributed content across multiple data centers, reducing the load on origin servers during high-traffic periods. The caching of static assets at the edge further alleviated pressure on the client's infrastructure. Cloudflare's built-in DDoS protection and load balancing capabilities helped absorb and distribute sudden increases in traffic. The implementation of rate limiting prevented any single source from overwhelming the system. These features collectively allowed the client's web applications to maintain performance and availability even during unexpected traffic surges, without requiring immediate scaling of their own infrastructure. John's Cloudflare implementation greatly improved the client's ability to handle traffic spikes by leveraging global content distribution, edge caching, DDoS protection, and load balancing, ensuring consistent performance without immediate infrastructure scaling.