Ideas for building
better software.

CDN origin timeout increased to two minutes

Vercel’s CDN will now wait up to 120 seconds for your backend to start sending data, up from 30 seconds. This extended proxied request timeout is now available on all plans at no additional cost. The defines how long our CDN allows your to respond before canceling the request. After the initial byte is received, your backend can take longer than two minutes to complete the request, as long as it continues sending data at least once every 120 seconds.proxied request timeoutexternal backend This

Up to 80% pricing reduction for Web Analytics

We’ve increased included limits and reduced the price of Web Analytics event and the Web Analytics Plus add-on by up to 80%. Web Analytics is now billed: Web Analytics Plus is an optional add-on that unlocks increased retention and UTM parameters. Included event limits have increased: Learn more about .Web Analytics pricing Read more , instead of 100K incrementsPer single event At ($3 per 100K, a 79% decrease from $14 per 100K)$0.00003 per event At for the Plus add-on(an 80% decrease, from

Evolution of Product Classification at Shopify: From Categories to Comprehensive Product Understanding

Security Center - URL Scanner now supports geo-specific scanning

Enterprise customers can now choose the geographic location from which a URL scan is performed — either via Security Center in the Cloudflare dashboard or via the URL Scanner API. This feature gives security teams greater insight into how a website behaves across different regions, helping uncover targeted, location-specific threats. What’s new: Location Picker: Select a location for the scan via Security Center → Investigate in the dashboard or through the API. Region-aware scanning: Understand

WAF - Improved Payload Logging for WAF Managed Rules

We have upgraded WAF Payload Logging to enhance rule diagnostics and usability: Targeted logging: Logs now capture only the specific portions of requests that triggered WAF rules, rather than entire request segments. Visual highlighting: Matched content is visually highlighted in the UI for faster identification. Enhanced context: Logs now include surrounding context to make diagnostics more effective. Payload Logging is available to all Enterprise customers. If you have not used Payload Loggin

Workers - Improved memory efficiency for WebAssembly Workers

FinalizationRegistry is now available in Workers. You can opt-in using the enable_weak_ref compatibility flag. This can reduce memory leaks when using WebAssembly-based Workers, which includes Python Workers and Rust Workers. The FinalizationRegistry works by enabling toolchains such as Emscripten and wasm-bindgen to automatically free WebAssembly heap allocations. If you are using WASM and seeing Exceeded Memory errors and cannot determine a cause using memory profiling, you may want to enable

OpenAI Expands Leadership with Fidji Simo

Read the message Sam shared with the company earlier today.

OpenAI’s response to the Department of Energy on AI infrastructure

Why infrastructure is destiny and how the US can seize it.