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Cloudflare Changelog

Workers - Bypass caching for subrequests made from Cloudflare Workers, with Request.cache

You can now use the cache property of the Request interface to bypass Cloudflare's cache when making subrequests from Cloudflare Workers, by setting its value to no-store. JavaScript export default { async fetch(req, env, ctx) { const request = new Request("https://cloudflare.com", { cache: "no-store", }); const response = await fetch(request); return response; }, }; TypeScript export default { async fetch(req, env, ctx): Promise<Response>

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Vercel Blog

Vercel named a Visionary in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platforms

The Frontend Cloud is designed for developers and teams that care deeply about user experiences. Whether you're serving billions of users or building your first project, the Frontend Cloud helps you remove friction from the development and delivery process. This allows you to focus on building your product instead of managing and configuring the infrastructure required to make it work. Read more

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Cloudflare Changelog

Email security - Use Logpush for Email security user actions

You can now send user action logs for Email security to an endpoint of your choice with Cloudflare Logpush. Filter logs matching specific criteria you have set or select from multiple fields you want to send. For all users, we will log the date and time, user ID, IP address, details about the message they accessed, and what actions they took. When creating a new Logpush job, remember to select Audit logs as the dataset and filter by: Field: "ResourceType" Operator: "starts with" Value: "email_se

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Vercel Blog

Next.js AI Chatbot Template 3.0

The has been updated to use , React 19, and the Next.js AI Chatbot templateNext.js 15Auth.js for Next beta. The template's UI has also been redesigned to include a model switcher to make it easier for users to experiment with different models. The new side-by-side UI keeps your users' output and chat messages on screen simultaneously. or .Try the demodeploy your own Read more

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Vercel Blog

MotorTrend: Shifting into overdrive with Vercel

—a Warner Bros. Discovery company and the world’s leading media company on all things automotive—needed a digital experience as powerful as the vehicles they showcase. Bogged down by a legacy tech stack, their development team faced frustratingly long build times and a cumbersome release process. They knew a complete redesign wasn't the answer—they needed a platform upgrade.MotorTrend Read more

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Vercel Blog

Track build metrics and resource consumption with Observability

Users in the can now get additional metrics related to builds, including:limited beta of Observability Observability is in for current users and can be accessed from the new Observability tab in your Vercel projects.limited betaMonitoring Read more : Understand your build time across time, identifying changes to longer build times faster.Build time : See how effective your builds are by viewing your average memory and disk usage.Memory and disk usage : Explore P50 and P90 durations of eac

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PlanetScale Blog

Introducing sharding on PlanetScale with workflows

We just released our new workflows functionality, which provides you with recipes that run a series of predefined steps to perform actions on your database. Our first workflow enables you to horizontally scale your databases by moving tables to a sharded keyspace, all from within the PlanetScale dashboard. If you're familiar with Vitess, this first workflow is similar to MoveTables, a critical component to managing your data distribution in Vitess. We are excited to now offer this functionality

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