Measuring WordPress Performance Without Fooling Yourself
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Cloudflare Traces a Six-Week Image-Truncation Bug to a Race Condition in Rust’s Hyper Library
A subtle timing issue in the hyper HTTP library caused Cloudflare's Images service to silently truncate large image responses, and it took a six-week investigation to track down a fix that was just four lines of code.
Cloudflare Adds Saga Rollbacks to Workflows for Safer Multi-Step Automation
Cloudflare Workflows now lets developers define rollback logic directly inside each step, replacing manual compensation code with built-in, durable undo handling when a workflow fails.
Inside a Brute-Force Campaign Against wp-login
A walkthrough of what a real credential-stuffing attack against wp-login.php looks like in the access logs, and the layered defenses that turn it from a threat into a non-event.
Why ML-DSA Will Have to Do for the Post-Quantum Signature Transition
Cloudflare explains why next-generation post-quantum signature algorithms will not arrive in time for the first migration wave, and why ML-DSA is the practical choice today.
Cloudflare Builds Meerkat, a Leaderless Global Consensus Service
Cloudflare's research team has developed Meerkat, an experimental distributed consensus service built on the QuePaxa algorithm, designed to eliminate the leader-timeout failures that have caused real incidents across its 330-plus data centers.
DV, OV, EV: TLS Certificate Types and What Browsers Actually Show
The padlock looks the same no matter which certificate sits behind it. Here is what DV, OV, and EV actually verify, and why automated free certificates are the right call for nearly every WordPress site.
Cloudflare Signs UK Cyber Resilience Pledge as Threats Surge
Cloudflare has joined the UK government's newly launched Cyber Resilience Pledge as a founding signatory, citing rising DDoS volumes and AI-assisted attacks as reasons the framework matters now.
Cloudflare Workers Cache Puts a Tiered Cache in Front of Your Worker
Cloudflare has launched Workers Cache, a tiered caching layer that sits in front of Workers and is configured entirely through Wrangler and standard Cache-Control headers, eliminating CPU charges on cache hits.
Uptime Monitoring That Wakes You Before Customers Notice
A good uptime setup catches a broken checkout or a stalled cron job long before a support ticket does. Here is how to pick check intervals, monitoring locations, and alert routing that actually works.