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  1. 01Cloudflare · performance

    Cutting our inference bill by 68% by being obsessive about optimization

    An engineering team investigated a steady rise in AI code review costs and found that cache misses and redundant model calls were driving up expenses. By restructuring system prompts to enable cross-repository prompt caching, eliminating wasted tool calls, and switching to more efficient models, the team cut inference costs by 68% while also significantly improving review latency.

    DEPTH ■■■■■15 min read6 days ago

    Machine Learning

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  2. 02Cloudflare · performance

    Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

    Following physical strikes on Yandex data centers, overall HTTP traffic from the network dropped significantly, leading to speculation that malicious bot farms had been disabled. However, traffic analysis revealed that search crawling simply decreased while malicious automation quickly migrated to other hosting providers with identical fingerprints. Consequently, overall malicious bot traffic remained flat, demonstrating that network disruptions do not stop portable automated workloads.

    DEPTH ■■■■■8 min read11 days ago

    Incidents & Postmortems

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  3. 03Cloudflare · postmortem

    Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug

    During the beta of MySQL support for Hyperdrive, engineers investigated rare empty query responses and connection hangs occurring in 0.001% of requests. They discovered that sharing the data center cache between client and endpoint nodes caused protocol capability mismatches when translating MySQL wire messages. The team resolved the issue by standardizing the cache to always store responses encoded with canonical Hyperdrive capabilities.

    DEPTH ■■■■■9 min read11 days ago

    MySQL

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  4. 04Cloudflare · architecture

    How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents

    Commerce.com and Cloudflare collaborated to enable WebMCP at the edge for nearly 100,000 storefronts, allowing AI agents to interact reliably with e-commerce sites using structured tools rather than fragile HTML scraping. The team implemented edge-level configuration rules using custom hostname metadata to provide individual merchants with a seamless opt-out mechanism and added support for custom MCP paths. This integration allows agents to execute shopping tasks directly within the active browser session while ensuring fallback safety and zero extra latency for opted-out stores.

    DEPTH ■■■■■6 min read4 days ago

    Machine Learning

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