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Date Published
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Mahmoud Salem, Rachael Truong
Word count
1441
Language
English
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None

Summary

Cloudflare plays a crucial role in supporting the Internet's infrastructure as a reverse proxy for approximately 20% of all websites, improving performance, security, and reliability. The company collaborates with organizations like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Cloudflare Workflows was introduced to streamline the process of generating and submitting reports to NCMEC, providing a structured, observable, and retryable system that simplifies code behind it. The new architecture replaces a complex queue-based system with a single workflow that orchestrates the entire process from start to finish, offering real-time visibility into each report processed and the status of each step in the workflow. This transformation has improved debugging, error handling, and monitoring for NCMEC incident reports, making it easier to troubleshoot issues and retry failed steps or terminate workflows. Cloudflare Workflows can be deployed with minimal changes to wrap existing code within a Workflow, and the company provides documentation and starter projects to help developers get started.