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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 London devs! 🌍 Region: Earth is coming to London! We're teaming up with @prisma.io for an epic evening of ⚡️edge tech, 🛠️weird databases, 🍕pizza, and good vibes.

📍 County Hall, London
📅 May 1st | 🕠 5:30PM
🎟️ Free, but RSVP required: lu.ma/qkutuxc9

Connect with top builders and win prizes! 🚀

🌎 Region: Earth: London with Cloudflare & Prisma · Luma

Modern apps don’t live in one place - they live on Region: Earth. Co-hosted by Cloudflare and Prisma, this event brings together developers, builders, and tech…

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 10

Super Slurper just got 5x faster! 🚀
(Try saying that three times fast.)

Migrate data from S3, Google Cloud Storage, or any S3-compatible storage straight to Cloudflare R2 -- now in 1/5 the time.

Link in 🧵 showing how we built it using Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues.

Making Super Slurper 5x faster with Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues

We re-architected Super Slurper from the ground up using our Developer Platform — leveraging Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and Queues — and improved transfer speeds by up to 5x.

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 10

❄️🥶 Cool story: Your R2 bucket is now a data warehouse! You can now enable an Iceberg REST catalog on any bucket to:
1) Manage Iceberg tables and metadata with ease
2) Work seamlessly with existing tools like PyIceberg, Snowflake, and Spark
3) Query data from any cloud or region with zero egress fees

R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees

R2 Data Catalog is now in public beta: a managed Apache Iceberg data catalog built directly into your R2 bucket.

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just shipped: D1 read replication is now live!

Run multiple, geographically distributed replicas without paying a multiplier on storage or compute, and use the new Sessions API to manage your consistency mode ⚡️

Read more on the blog:

Sequential consistency without borders: How D1 implements global read replication

D1, Cloudflare’s managed SQL database, announces read replication beta. In this post, we do a technical deep dive of the read replication implementation and how your queries can remain consistent acro...

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Harshil Agrawal @harshil.dev · Apr 9

I thought you might want to search the @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social Dev Week blogs.

So I vibe coded this little demo that uses AutoRAG 🤖

Give it a try: harshil.dev/demo/devweek...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 9

If you have a secret you want to use across multiple Workers, you can now use the Cloudflare Secrets Store to do so.

Introducing Cloudflare Secrets Store (Beta): secure your secrets, simplify your workflow

Securely store, manage and deploy account level secrets to Cloudflare Workers through Cloudflare Secrets Store, available in beta – with role-based access control, audit logging and Wrangler support.

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 9

Say goodbye to stitching together multiple point solutions and WebRTC headaches when building realtime applications.

RealtimeKit SDK is a complete cross-platfrom toolkit to handle all the low-level complexities of building immersive video and audio experiences.

Make your apps truly interactive with Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit

Announcing Cloudflare Realtime and RealtimeKit, a complete toolkit for shipping real-time audio and video apps in days with SDKs for Kotlin, React Native, Swift, JavaScript, and Flutter.

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 9

The new Observability tab shows you what's happening across all your Workers:
📈 View metrics & logs from a single dashboard
🔎 Use the Query Builder to explore your logs, extract metrics, and create graphical visualizations for faster future investigations

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 9

Deploying Worker's applications with a click of a button has never been so simple.

Skip the setup: deploy a Workers application in seconds

You can now add a Deploy to Cloudflare button to your repository’s README when building a Workers application, making it simple for other developers to set up and deploy your project!

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 8

Local development support for Email Workers is out. You can now test the behavior of an Email Worker script, receiving, replying and sending emails in your local environment using wrangler dev.

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Local development support for Email Workers

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 8

@cloudflare-dev.bsky.social 🧡 @vite.dev

Cloudflare Vite Plugin 1.0 is out now—with official support for Vite 6, React Router v7, and the full Developer Platform.

Now you can run Vite’s dev server locally, while executing your code directly in the Workers runtime!

“Just use Vite”… with the Workers runtime

The Cloudflare Vite plugin integrates Vite, one of the most popular build tools for web development, with the Workers runtime. Today, we are announcing the 1.0 release and official support for React R...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hyperdrive now supports MySQL—directly connect Cloudflare Workers to your MySQL databases, no matter where they're hosted.

Build global MySQL apps using Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive

MySQL comes to Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive: your favorite MySQL drivers and ORMs are now compatible with the Workers runtime, and Hyperdrive allows you to connect to your regional database from ...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 8

Hyperdrive is now free on the Workers Free Plan 🚀

Connect Workers apps directly to existing SQL databases—no refactors, just faster queries (up to 90% lower latency).

Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases and why we’re making it free

Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. We go deep into the details of what that looks like, in celebration of announc...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 8

Deploy your Next.js application to Cloudflare with the OpenNext Cloudflare adapter now in v1.0-beta featuring:
✅ Caching
✅ Partial prerendering
✅ Middleware
✅ App and Pages routers
✅ Image Optimization

Deploy your Next.js app to Cloudflare Workers with the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext

With the 1.0-beta release of the Cloudflare adapter for OpenNext, you can host your Next.js 14 and 15 applications on Cloudflare Workers.

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Confidence @megaconfidence.bsky.social · Apr 7

Devweek day 1: @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social shipped AutoRAG (a fully managed RAG pipeline) and Workflows today 🔥

Combining both, here's an example to automatically index any website into a RAG flow as users visit each page. It's less than 40 lines of JS! 🤯

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AndyJessop @andyjessop.bsky.social · Apr 7

Congrats @chatsidhartha.bsky.social - a wonderful achievement. I love using Workflows.

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

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Cloudflare Agents

Build agents on Cloudflare—the platform designed for durable execution, serverless inference, and pricing that scales up (and down).

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

Playwright for Browser Rendering now available.

Playwright for Browser Rendering now available

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

Browser Rendering REST API is Generally Available, with new endpoints and a free tier.

Browser Rendering REST API is Generally Available, with new endpoints and a free tier

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

Cloudflare Workflows is now GA!

Durable execution for multi-step apps—with automatic retries and state persistence for tasks running minutes, hours, or days.

Cloudflare Workflows is now GA: production-ready durable execution

Workflows — a durable execution engine built directly on top of Workers — is now Generally Available. We’ve landed new human-in-the-loop capabilities, more scale, and more metrics: just what you need ...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

AutoRAG is now in open beta—fully-managed RAG pipelines so you can focus on building, not managing vector databases.

🗄️ Upload docs—we handle your embeddings and vector DB
🤖 Build AI chatbots with context-aware answers using API
👀 Monitor and analyze queries via AI Gateway

Introducing AutoRAG: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation on Cloudflare

AutoRAG is here: fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines powered by Cloudflare's global network and powerful developer ecosystem. Simplify how you build and scale RAG pipelines to...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

Want access to Llama 4 Scout? It's now on Workers AI!

- Mixture-of-Experts architecture for fast inference
- Natively multimodal (image and text understanding)
- Excels at multi-document analysis, codebase reasoning, and personalized tasks

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Meta Llama 4 now available on Workers AI

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct is now available on Workers AI: use this multimodal, Mixture of Experts AI model on Cloudflare's serverless AI platform to build next-gen AI applications. Build products tha...

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 7

Developer Week is here. We're pushing updates to prod daily—new products, features, and a few surprises. Any predictions?

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Cloudflare Developers @cloudflare-dev.bsky.social · Apr 1

You can build and deploy remote MCP servers to Cloudflare, and we handle the hard parts for you.

Build and deploy Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to Cloudflare

You can now build and deploy remote MCP servers to Cloudflare, and we handle the hard parts of building remote MCP servers for you. Unlike local MCP servers you may have previously used, remote MCP se...

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Celso Martinho @celso.bsky.social · Apr 1

One more. If you're around Lisbon and are interested in how we scale our systems to millions of customers, join us for a joint engineering meetup with Cloudflare and Supabase.

Scaling to millions meetup · Luma

For the first time in Cloudflare Engineering meetups, we will have another company sharing their great experience with us. Cloudflare and Supabase engineers…

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