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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX
I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a...
Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Everything we launched during Agents Week
Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.
Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status
Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.
How to manage risk from unfixed Kubernetes CVEs
Learn how to confirm whether your cluster is exposed to unfixed Kubernetes CVEs and build detection queries using Kubernetes audit logs.
Instrument serverless apps with agentic onboarding
Use Datadog agentic onboarding to instrument AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, and Azure Container Apps from an AI assistant or CLI.
Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet
Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor move...
Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language
Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.
Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding
We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.
Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane
Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.
Does Kubernetes DRA Replace HAMi?
Projects that want to share a GPU on Kubernetes have to work around an API instead of with it. The device plugin interface could count devices, and that was the whole vocabulary: nvidia.com/gpu: 1. It meant one...
Shadow AI in CI/CD: Threat-modeling the path from developer laptop to Kubernetes
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of daily software delivery, often before it becomes part of the security architecture. That gap has a name: Shadow AI. It is any AI tool, model, agent, extension, or integration used...
How Tailscale mitigates the lethal trifecta
Keep AI agents useful without combining their riskiest capabilities.
Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data
AI Search makes search easier than ever, with no Cloudflare primitives to stitch together. Point it at your data to create a search for your own files and websites. We're also sharing a preview of our new pricing model.
The next generation of MCP
The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running it in production.
From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents
More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.
Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable
Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.
Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
Give any website a WebMCP interface
Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents — no new APIs, no origin changes — while the human stays in control and creators keep their traffic.
LitmusChaos Q1-Q2 2026 update: community, contributions, and project progress
About LitmusChaos LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that helps teams identify weaknesses and potential outages in their infrastructure by running controlled chaos experiments. Built on cloud native principles, LitmusChaos enables teams to validate...
GitLab Secrets Manager adds ESO, Terraform, API support
Today, you might maintain separate secret stores for CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform. However, that leaves multiple tools to manage, access models to keep in sync, and audit trails to correlate when something goes wrong. GitLab Secrets Manager now supports External Secrets Operator (ESO) and Terraf...
Confidential AI for GitLab Self-Hosted
Your developers want AI coding agents. Your source code is regulated IP that can't be sent to a third-party AI service, and your compliance team has said so in writing. The usual escape hatch, standing up your own GPU cluster and running the models yourself, means buying scarce hardware, hiring a te...
Find, analyze, and collaborate on user sessions in Datadog Session Replay
See how Datadog Session Replay unites session discovery, AI analysis, and team collaboration in a single workspace.
Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports
We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge reports.
From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking
Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content. In our 2024 post on sequence learning for ads recommendations, we showed how modeling the order and timi...