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Slow APIs are not always a database problem. Here’s how request parsing, middleware, and repeated object work can become the real bottleneck before Postgres is even involved.
New Magic Transit and Cloudflare WAN accounts are now assigned a single IPv4 anycast address by default. Cloudflare handles failures on its network automatically by advertising your endpoint IP from multiple nodes across many globally distributed data centers. To handle failures on your network, configure two tunnels from separate routers. To request additional anycast IP addresses for your account, contact your account team. For tunnel configuration guidance, refer to Configure tunnel endpoints
We’ve added a new Agent Readiness tab to URL Scanner reports accessible via the Cloudflare dashboard. This feature evaluates your site against emerging AI standards and provides six specialized scores to help you optimize for the next generation of AI agents and automated discovery. The Internet is shifting from a human-read web to a machine-read web. AI agents now browse, interact with, and even perform transactions on websites. If a site isn't "agent-ready," these bots may consume excessive ba
The Access login page and one-time password (OTP) page now feature a refreshed design that improves visual consistency, user trust, and mobile responsiveness. Before: After: The updated login experience includes: Unified authentication card - All sign-in options (identity provider buttons, email input, OTP) now appear in a single card with consistent styling, replacing the previous multi-section layout. Consistent button styling - Identity provider buttons use a uniform size and layout for eas
SSH through Wrangler is now enabled by default for Containers. Previously, you had to set ssh.enabled to true in your Container configuration before you could connect. This change does not expose any publicly accessible ports on your Container. The SSH service is reachable only through wrangler containers ssh, which authenticates against your Cloudflare account. You also need to add an ssh-ed25519 public key to authorized_keys before anyone can connect, so enabling SSH alone does not grant acces
Cloudflare Gateway now supports natural language policy creation for DNS, HTTP, and Network firewall policies. Administrators can describe the outcome they want in plain language, and Cloudflare will generate a complete policy rule that populates the policy builder form. To create a policy with natural language, select Create with AI on any Gateway firewall policy tab. Choose a policy type, describe what the policy should do, and a fully configured rule will appear in the policy builder for rev
R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket that allows you to connect query engines like R2 SQL, Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB to your data in R2. You can now query analytics for your R2 Data Catalog warehouses via Cloudflare's GraphQL Analytics API. Two new datasets are available: r2CatalogDataOperationsAdaptiveGroups tracks Iceberg REST API requests made to your catalog, including operation type, request duration, HTTP status, and request body by
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