Blog
This is where we write about the decisions behind our platform. Why media lives on object storage, how we stack caches, what Cloudflare does at the edge and where we are heading with AI agents. Every post has numbers, sources and an honest opinion, including the mistakes we learned from.
Latest
Agents increasingly read the web on behalf of people. We looked at llms.txt, Cloudflare’s Markdown for Agents and content negotiation, and propose how it would work on our platform.
Read the post
Why an attack should be stopped before the server, why fail2ban behind Cloudflare is almost useless, and what we learned when our own monitoring showed a false 100 %.
Read the post
Why a web shop without caching cannot breathe, what may and may not be cached, how WooCommerce 7.8 changed cart fragments, and one Redis bug we had to fix.
Read the post
An image is the LCP element on 68 % of mobile pages. But the biggest loss is often not the image size, it is the waiting. What the data shows and how we solve it on the platform.
Read the post
Buckets, keys and the S3 API, explained without jargon. Why we chose Backblaze B2 in the EU for media, what it costs and what we learned moving half a million files.
Read the post