Network performance update: Developer Week 2025
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Cloudflare has been tracking and comparing our speed with other top networks since 2021. Let’s take a look at how things have changed since our last update....
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“You get Instant Purge, and you get Instant Purge!” — all purge methods now available to all customers
2025-04-01
Following up on having the fastest purge in the industry, we have now increased Instant Purge quotas across all Cloudflare plans. ...
Dynamically optimize, clip, and resize video from any origin with Media Transformations
2025-03-07
With Cloudflare Stream’s new Media Transformations, content owners can resize, crop, clip, and optimize short-form video, all without migrating storage. ...
Moving Baselime from AWS to Cloudflare: simpler architecture, improved performance, over 80% lower cloud costs
2024-10-31
Post-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network. ...
Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration
2024-09-30
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Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week....
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