Cloudflare

Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus

Building a globally distributed consensus service that achieves strong consistency across geographically dispersed nodes while tolerating faults.

distributed-systems databases
4 min
Cloudflare

Scaling Security Insights: how we achieved a 10x increase in global scanning capacity

Cloudflare needed to increase global security scanning capacity 10x to provide frequent Security Insights to all customers without purchasing additional hardware.

messaging-queues databases
4 min
Cloudflare

Our billing pipeline was suddenly slow. The culprit was a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse

A partitioning change to a petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused billing pipeline jobs to stall without obvious error signals in standard metrics.

databases observability
4 min
Cloudflare

Agents that remember: introducing Agent Memory

AI agents lack persistent memory mechanisms to retain context, learn from interactions, and improve decision-making over time.

storage-systems ml-systems
3 min
Cloudflare

Deploy Postgres and MySQL databases with PlanetScale + Workers

Enabling serverless applications to connect to managed relational databases without managing infrastructure or dealing with connection pooling complexities.

databases api-design
3 min