Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications to production, fast09/27/2023 This post is also available in 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Français, Español. Vectorize is our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network: and you can start building with it right away. Vectorize is in open beta,

Hyperdrive: making databases feel like they’re global09/28/2023 This post is also available in 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, Deutsch, Français and Español. Hyperdrive makes accessing your existing databases from Cloudflare Workers, wherever they are running, hyper fast. You connect Hyperdrive to your database, change one line of code to connect through Hyperdrive, and voilà: connections and queries get faster (

Today, Cloudflare is very excited to announce full support for HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities, a new standard that speeds the loading of webpages by up to 37%. Cloudflare worked closely with standards builders to help form the specification for HTTP/3 priorities and is excited to help push the web forward. HTTP/3 Extensible Priorities is available on all plans on Cloudflare. For paid users, there is

The Workers Browser Rendering API allows developers to programmatically control and interact with a headless browser instance and create automation flows for their applications and products. Since the private beta announcement, based on the feedback we've been receiving and our own roadmap, the team has been working on the developer experience and improving the platform architecture for the best p

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework03/02/2023 In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language. Oxy is a foundation of several Cloudflare projects, including the Zero Trust Gateway, the iCloud Private Relay second hop proxy, and the internal egress routing service. Oxy leverages our years of expe

This post is also available in 简体中文 and 繁體中文. After the recent announcement regarding WASI support in Workers, I decided to see what it would take to get code written in Zig to run as a Worker, and it turned out to be trivial. This post documents the process I followed as a new user of Zig. It’s so exciting to see how Cloudflare Workers is a polyglot platform allowing you to write programs in the

Magic NAT: everywhere, unbounded, and lower cost05/12/2022 Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the most common and versatile network functions, used by everything from your home router to the largest ISPs. Today, we’re delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions. Magic NAT is free from capacity constraints, available e

This post is also available in Français, Deutsch, Español, 简体中文, 日本語 and 繁體中文. We announced Cloudflare Workers in 2017, giving developers access to compute on our network. We were excited about the possibilities this unlocked, but we quickly realized — most real world applications are stateful. Since then, we’ve delivered KV, Durable Objects, and R2, giving developers access to various types of st

A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 enters open beta05/11/2022 This post is also available in 简体中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Français and Español. In September, we announced that we were building our own object storage solution: Cloudflare R2. R2 is our answer to egregious egress charges from incumbent cloud providers, letting developers store as much data as they want without worrying about the cost of access

The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source05/09/2022 450,000 developers have used Cloudflare Workers since we launched. When we announced Cloudflare Workers nearly five years ago, we had no idea if we’d ever be in this position. But a lot of care, hard work — not to mention dogfooding — later, we’ve been absolutely blown away by the use cases and applications built on our developer platf

This post is also available in 简体中文. A few days ago Google announced that the users from the "G Suite legacy free edition" would need to switch to the paid edition before May 1, 2022, to maintain their services and accounts working. Because of this, many people are now considering alternatives. One use case for G Suite legacy was handling email for custom domains. In September, during Birthday Wee