Volume 343, Issue 2 · 6 articles
Cloudflare Basin is a serverless analytics platform on Apache Iceberg and R2 with no clusters and no data transfer fees.
Cloudflare introduced Cloudflare Basin, a serverless data platform built on Apache Iceberg and Cloudflare R2 for ingesting, storing, cataloguing and querying analytical data with existing tools.
Data stays in the open Iceberg format so any compatible engine can read it without copying or lock-in, Cloudflare's network handles collection and queries with no servers to provision, and there are no data transfer fees across clouds or regions.
CTO Dane Knecht says it brings Cloudflare's serverless model to analytics.
Anomaly, maker of the open source OpenCode coding agent, replaced an AWS S3 and Athena setup with Basin's pipelines, catalogue and SQL.
Cloudflare Gateway and DLP gain a Forward action and custom validation functions that run customer code inline in policy evaluation.
Cloudflare argues that secure web gateways have relied for decades on a match-condition-then-terminal-action model that hits a ceiling in complex environments.
It defines true programmability as running a customer's own code inline in the policy evaluation path at the moment of a security decision, and it is integrating Gateway and Data Loss Prevention with its edge computing platform to deliver that.
New capabilities include a Forward Gateway action and custom validation functions.
Early results from a Cloudflare-OpenAI pilot show Cloudflare network signals bringing previously unknown pages into OpenAI's search index.
Cloudflare and OpenAI launched a research pilot in July 2026 to test whether signals from Cloudflare's network could help ChatGPT users discover new content more efficiently.
Cloudflare reports early results showing the pilot has brought previously unknown pages into OpenAI's search index, giving ChatGPT more sources to draw on for relevant, timely information.
The post also shares lessons about what makes a page worth discovering and how AI systems use the web, while site owners keep control over access.
Cloudflare introduces a system to evaluate and report when Verified bots start behaving badly after they are verified.
Cloudflare says verifying who operates a bot creates accountability, but trust depends on what the bot does next, since known bots can still ignore site preferences, overwhelm origins or evade controls.
Verified bots must identify themselves securely, do only what they say and avoid abusive behavior, with identity handled by Web Bot Auth and catalogued in BotBase.
Cloudflare is introducing a system that continuously evaluates Verified bot behavior and reports deviations, so it can keep answering yes to the question of whether a verified bot can be trusted.
Cloudflare details the D1 control plane changes that let its serverless SQLite database scale to millions of databases.
Cloudflare says AI-assisted development and vibe coding platforms are pushing applications toward many small databases, one per user, tenant or preview environment.
D1, Cloudflare's serverless database based on SQLite, lets customers create millions of databases and pay only for use.
The post is a deep dive into how Cloudflare scaled D1's control plane to support platforms with millions of databases, hundreds of thousands active at once, without routing every query through centralized bottlenecks.
Cloudflare's Data team explains five years of pipeline changes that deferred about two and a half years of hardware expansion.
Cloudflare's Data team runs the pipeline that moves data from its global network to central data centers, delivering roughly two billion events per second as of May.
Facing exponential traffic growth against linear hardware growth, the team has made a series of efficiency improvements over five years, including breaking up a monolithic data schema in 2022, adjusting compression in 2024 and rearchitecting pipeline replication.
Cloudflare says the changes are equivalent to deferring two and a half years of hardware expansion.