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

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

Artifacts: versioned storage that speaks Git

Providing agents, developers, and automations with scalable, Git-compatible versioned storage that can handle tens of millions of repositories without forcing them to manage infrastructure.

storage-systems api-design
4 min
Cloudflare

Unweight: how we compressed an LLM 22% without sacrificing quality

GPU memory bandwidth constraints were limiting LLM inference efficiency across Cloudflare's distributed edge network, requiring optimization to deliver faster and cheaper inference.

ml-systems distributed-systems
4 min
Cloudflare

A one-line Kubernetes fix that saved 600 hours a year

Cloudflare's Atlantis instance took 30 minutes to restart due to a Kubernetes volume permission bottleneck.

observability storage-systems
4 min