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Fetched June 8th, 2026
Cloudflare

Enforcing the First AS in BGP AS_PATHs

BGP routing is vulnerable to hijacks and path leaks where attackers forge AS_PATH attributes to redirect traffic through malicious routes, which RPKI alone cannot fully prevent.

security distributed-systems
4 min

Fetched June 1st, 2026
Cloudflare

How we built Cloudflare's data platform and an AI agent on top of it

Cloudflare needed to unify fragmented analytics data across its global edge network and enable intelligent querying of that data at scale.

distributed-systems observability
3 min
Cloudflare

Iran's Internet is partially restored, Cloudflare Radar data shows

How to detect and monitor large-scale Internet shutdowns and measure the extent of network restoration in real-time across a country.

observability distributed-systems
4 min