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Fetched April 13th, 2026
Cloudflare

500 Tbps of capacity: 16 years of scaling our global network

How to scale a global content delivery and DDoS mitigation network to handle massive throughput (500 Tbps) while maintaining capacity to protect against record-breaking attacks.

load-balancing distributed-systems
3 min

Fetched April 6th, 2026
Cloudflare

Introducing Programmable Flow Protection: custom DDoS mitigation logic for Magic Transit customers

Magic Transit customers needed the ability to define and enforce custom DDoS mitigation logic for proprietary and non-standard UDP protocols without being limited to Cloudflare's pre-built detection rules.

security distributed-systems
4 min
Cloudflare

Why we're rethinking cache for the AI era

CDN cache systems were designed for human traffic patterns but struggle with the distinct access patterns of AI bot traffic, which now represents over 10 billion requests per week and threatens cache efficiency.

caching distributed-systems
4 min