The Cloudflare Blog

In Q1 2025, we observed Internet disruptions around the world caused by cable damage, power outages, natural disasters, fire, a cyberattack, and technical problems.

The EMEA region is a patchwork of diverse markets, industries, and regulatory environments, and it demands a partner-centric approach. That’s why I joined Cloudflare as VP of EMEA Partnerships.

After years navigating the world of high-growth tech, I’ve learned to recognize a special opportunity when I see one. That’s exactly why I’m thrilled to join Cloudflare as Chief People Officer.

We’ve closed out Developer Week 2025. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out during the week.

We transitioned to Cloudflare Workflows to manage complex, multi-step processes more efficiently. This shift replaced our National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) reporting system.

Cloudflare’s Startup Program offers up to $250,000 in credits for companies building on our Developer Platform across 4 tiers: $5,000, $25,000, $100,000, and $250,000.

We’re announcing Workers VPC: a global private network that allows applications deployed on Cloudflare Workers to connect to your legacy cloud infrastructure.

Discover how developers are using Cloudflare to scale AI workloads and streamline automation and how participants in Workers Launchpad Cohort #4 have built, and startups participating in Cohort #5

Cloudflare Containers are coming this June. Run new types of workloads on our network with an experience that is simple, scalable, global and deeply integrated with Workers.

We just made Workers AI inference faster with speculative decoding & prefix caching. Use our new batch inference for handling large request volumes seamlessly.

Learn about recent developments in Certificate Transparency (CT), and how we built a next-generation CT log on top of Cloudflare's Developer Platform.

We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x.

We’ve just shipped our new streaming ingestion service, Pipelines — and we’ve acquired Arroyo, enabling us to bring new SQL-based, stateful transformations to Pipelines and R2.

D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. Here's a deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent across all regions.

R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.

Announcing Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit, a complete toolkit for shipping real-time audio and video apps in days with SDKs for Kotlin, React Native, Swift, JavaScript, and Flutter.

We’ve improved Observability for Workers by announcing the General Availability of Workers Logs and the introduction of the Query Builder to help you investigate log events across all of your Workers.

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.

Cloudflare Snippets are now generally available, enabling fast, cost-free JavaScript-based HTTP traffic modifications across all paid plans.

Securely store, manage and deploy account level secrets to Cloudflare Workers through Cloudflare Secrets Store, available in beta – with role-based access control, audit logging and Wrangler support.