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Introducing Kafka Schema Registry for DigitalOcean Managed Kafka
We’re excited to announce support for Kafka Schema Registry in DigitalOcean’s Managed Kafka service, giving developers a powerful way to manage and validate schemas in their event-driven applications. Kafka Schema Registry, also referred to as Karapace, is a centralized service for managing and validating schemas for Kafka messages. It helps to ensure that data produced to and consumed from Kafka topics adheres to a defined structure, preventing data compatibility issues. Why use Schema Registry
Cloudflare One - Cloudy summaries for Access and Gateway Logs
Cloudy, Cloudflare's AI Agent, will now automatically summarize your Access and Gateway block logs. In the log itself, Cloudy will summarize what occurred and why. This will be helpful for quick troubleshooting and issue correlation. If you have feedback about the Cloudy summary - good or bad - you can provide that right from the summary itself.
Cloudflare One - New App Library for Zero Trust Dashboard
Cloudflare Zero Trust customers can use the App Library to get full visibility over the SaaS applications that they use in their Gateway policies, CASB integrations, and Access for SaaS applications. App Library, found under My Team, makes information available about all Applications that can be used across the Zero Trust product suite. You can use the App Library to see: How Applications are defined Where they are referenced in policies Whether they have Access for SaaS configured Review their
WAF - Increased IP List Limits for Enterprise Accounts
We have significantly increased the limits for IP Lists on Enterprise plans to provide greater flexibility and control: Total number of lists: Increased from 10 to 1,000. Total number of list items: Increased from 10,000 to 500,000. Limits for other list types and plans remain unchanged. For more details, refer to the lists availability.
WAF - WAF Release - 2025-07-07
This week’s roundup uncovers critical vulnerabilities affecting enterprise VoIP systems, webmail platforms, and a popular JavaScript framework. The risks range from authentication bypass to remote code execution (RCE) and buffer handling flaws, each offering attackers a path to elevate access or fully compromise systems. Key Findings Next.js - Auth Bypass: A newly detected authentication bypass flaw in the Next.js framework allows attackers to access protected routes or APIs without proper autho
Correlate logs and traces with OpenTelemetry in Vercel Log Drains
Vercel now automatically correlates logs with distributed traces for customers using OpenTelemetry to instrument their applications. Traces are a way to collect data about the performance and behavior of your application and help identify the cause of performance issues, errors, and other problems. is an open source project that allows you to instrument your application to collect traces.OpenTelemetry (OTel) When a request is traced using OTel, Vercel will enrich the relevant logs with trace a
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