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Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare

What's this blog post about?

This post discusses Cloudflare's journey of rearchitecting their entire technical architecture for performance and security products from scratch while ensuring that it does not slow down the pace at which they develop new products. The author explains how they are adding capabilities to their developer platform for internal service development, and migrating existing systems over to this new platform. They also share insights on building a gradual deployment system, progressive health-mediated advancement, and modularity of code for easier reasoning about the system. The post concludes with an invitation to join their Discord server to learn more or provide feedback on their work.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
May 18, 2023

Author(s)
Richard Boulton

Word count
4469

Hacker News points
3

Language
English


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