## Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use

2024-10-29

DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....

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DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....

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Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature....

2024-06-28

Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for Postgres protocol-level named prepared statements across pooled connections. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature...

2021-11-15

Customers can connect to a Postgres or MySQL database directly from their Workers using a Cloudflare Tunnel today. In the future, you can use Database Connectors to achieve this natively using a standardized Socket API....

2021-08-04

By using PostgREST with Postgres, we can build REST API-based applications. In particular, it's an excellent fit for Cloudflare Workers, our serverless function platform. Workers is a great place to build REST APIs....

November 27, 2020 12:00 PM

When we review design documents at Cloudflare, we are always on the lookout for Single Points of Failure (SPOFs). In this post, we present a timeline of a real-world incident, and how an interesting failure mode known as a Byzantine fault played a role in a cascading series of ev...

March 31, 2016 12:00 PM

Continuing our commitment to high quality open-source software, we’re happy to announce release 1.2 of CFSSL, our TLS/PKI Swiss Army knife. We haven’t written much about CFSSL here since we originally open sourced the project in 2014, so we thought we’d provide an update....

April 09, 2015 5:32 PM

When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits. ...