IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
16 articles
03 Oct 2026 · 4 min read
architecture
Cloudflare's new reference architecture for video processing splits a Worker, a Durable Object, and a Container into three distinct jobs. The split is the actual lesson — here's what each layer is for and when you'd copy this pattern.
Read more30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
architecture
Worker Previews spin up an isolated Durable Object namespace and Container per branch with one wrangler command. The service-binding gap is the part worth reading before you wire this into CI.
Read more15 Sep 2026 · 4 min read
cloudflare
Node.js compatibility on by default, a 64 MiB size cap, and a URL-based module registry landed in Workers on September 9. I moved a small Express-style API over. Here's what actually broke and what didn't.
Read more13 Sep 2026 · 9 min read
ci-cd
How a single Proxmox container builds, tests, deploys and serves KidsLen — private CI runners, a smoke-test gate, a Cloudflare Tunnel, and the honest cost.
Read more30 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
cloudflare
On Aug 27, Cloudflare shipped five memory-layout optimizations to Big Pineapple, their DNS cache, cutting per-entry memory by 56% and freeing ~100TB fleet-wide. A Tech Lead's walkthrough of the actual techniques — struct packing, arena allocation, string interning — and where they pay off in ordinary backend services, not just DNS resolvers at Cloudflare scale.
Read more21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare shipped Identity-Aware AI Gateway and Cloudflare Wallets this month — attributing every AI API call and every agent payment to a specific identity instead of a shared key. What this replaces, and the checklist for adopting it.
Read more20 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare shipped protocol-level detection for MCP traffic this month. A walkthrough of how it fingerprints agent tool calls, and the checklist I now run before wiring any new MCP server into my own agent stack.
Read more11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-agents
Cloudflare's Kitesurf ditches Chromium entirely — Servo's layout engine, Firefox's CSS engine, and a Rust JS engine, running inside Workers V8 isolates. The real benchmarks: 3-7x less resource usage, but Chromium still wins on raw speed.
Read more07 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
ai-infrastructure
As of August 7, 2026, Cloudflare merged AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane. One binding, one billing, unified observability across Cloudflare's managed GPUs and external providers. Here's what changed and what it means for AI infrastructure decisions.
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