Why Cloudflare Acquired Astro And What It Tells You About Where the Web Is Going
Cloudflare is a network infrastructure company. They run DNS, DDoS protection, and CDN services for millions of websites. They are not, historically, …
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Proving Zero Trust Actually Works: Entra ID + Cloudflare Access over Both OIDC and SAML
Most Zero Trust write-ups stop at "user signs in, user gets access." That's not where these integrations actually break. They break on group membershi…
I built a serverless URL shortener for $4.68/year (total)
I wanted two things: short links under my own brand (every link I share points traffic back to my site ), and a real excuse to run a complete system o…
Add Microsoft Clarity to Hugo with Cloudflare Zaraz - Without Redeploying
Adding Microsoft Clarity to a Hugo site normally means placing its tracking script in a base template, rebuilding the site, and deploying the change. …
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer's Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence
Edge vs. Endpoint Bot Blocking: A Developer's Guide to Cloudflare and Wordfence The Real Cost of AI Bot Traffic on Your WordPress Stack If you're runn…
How I Built an Ultra-Fast Bilingual Dictionary Handling 293,000+ Words on the Edge
Every developer has that one project. The passion build that sits in the back of your mind for months—or even years—before you finally sit down, crack…
Self-Hosted Hermes Agent on iOS: Cloudflare Tunnel + Access Service Tokens + Hermex
Self-Hosted Hermes Agent on iOS: Cloudflare Tunnel + Access Service Tokens + Hermex Get your Hermes Agent on your iPhone - without paying for a relay,…
Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare
Comments on a static blog — no backend, no login, all Cloudflare I run a small Astro blog on Cloudflare Pages. It mixes developer write-ups with perso…
How We Built an AI SaaS on the Edge for Nearly $0 in Infrastructure Costs
1. Introduction A few months ago, we started building Propoza , a tool that generates business proposals with AI for Brazilian freelancers and small b…
API Design Patterns for Cloudflare Workers: Minimal, Secure, Fast
API Design Patterns for Cloudflare Workers: Minimal, Secure, Fast I've built APIs on every platform—traditional servers, Lambda, containers. But Cloud…
Zero-JS Wasn't Enough: Edge Caching SSR HTML on Cloudflare Workers
The previous article ended with a confession: same build, two PageSpeed runs two hours apart, desktop Performance 99 and then 90. I blamed first-scree…
AI doesn't write bad code. It writes plausible code — so I tried to break my own AI-built app
Disclosure: I work on one of the tools in this post ( create-microservices-app ). But the experiment, commands, and outputs below are real, and the pa…
D1 read replicas returned stale data for 6 seconds — here's what I measured and how I designed around it
At p99, a D1 read replica in Tokyo was 6.1 seconds behind a write that landed on the Eastern NA primary. I found this out not from the docs, but from …
Move Your WordPress.com Domain to Cloudflare and Halve the Renewal
This post was originally published on Techucation , my blog at malcolmlow.com. Cross-posted here for the dev.to community. My WordPress.com domain ren…
We Built the Infrastructure for AI to Stop Guessing About Local Businesses
We Built the Infrastructure for AI to Stop Guessing About Local Businesses How Cloudflare Pages, Workers, and KV became the backbone of a first-inform…
Meet PageZERO: an open source SaaS starter kit on Cloudflare for the AI era
You have an idea for a SaaS. You open Cursor or Claude Code, and the familiar ritual begins. Auth. A database. Payments. Transactional email. Permissi…
Как перестать зависеть от Cloudflare в DNS и не выстрелить себе в ногу
DNS — это та штука, которую замечаешь только когда она падает. Весь твой трафик, почта, сертификаты, доступ к админкам — всё висит на том, что кто-то …
I built two Etsy SEO tools in 14 days — full stack breakdown (Cloudflare Workers + KV + Stripe)
I built two Etsy SEO tools in 14 days — full stack breakdown I spent the last two weeks building two products targeting the 5M+ Etsy seller market. He…
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
AI image generation can look like a simple request-response feature. A user enters a prompt, clicks generate, and waits for an image. For a prototype,…
Using Cloudflare Turnstile Invisible Challenges for Mobile APIs Without Breaking the User Experience
The problem we are solving We have mobile apps calling APIs through Cloudflare. The APIs are seeing automated traffic from headless browsers, scripted…
Controlling Employee AI Usage on Managed Devices: Browser Controls, Cloudflare AI Gateway, and AWS Bedrock
Employees are already using AI. They may use ChatGPT to rewrite emails, Claude to summarize documents, Gemini to analyze spreadsheets, Perplexity to r…
SeekYou: How I Built a Unified Host Intelligence Tool That Runs Free on Cloudflare Workers
One input. 15 sources. One structured report. Zero infrastructure costs. The Problem Every security engineer knows the workflow. You get an IP, a doma…
Two Gates Are Closing on AI Web Scraping
Google narrowed developer access to its web-search tools in January, while Cloudflare documented broader controls for blocking or challenging AI crawl…
Your AI Strategy Has a Blind Spot: An SEO and AEO Audit of vibescoder.dev
I spend a lot of time thinking about how AI agents discover and consume content. I run a company that builds developer tools. I write a blog about bui…
I Deployed My First Cloudflare Worker — Here's What I Learned
I sat there staring at the screen, my heart racing as I clicked 'deploy' on my first Cloudflare Worker. What should have been a straightforward proces…
Running Caddy on Cloudflare Workers via WebAssembly
Hi folks. This is my first post. Happy to join you here :) I’ve been running Caddy in production long enough to know two things: the Caddyfile is a jo…