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DOGFOODING AT SCALE: MIGRATING CDNJS TO CLOUDFLARE'S DEVELOPER PLATFORM

Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, a free JavaScript and CSS CDN used on roughly 12% of all websites, to run entirely on its Developer Platform as of June 23. The service handles an average of 108,000 requests per second across more than 330 data centers, with a 98.6% cache hit rate. The new architecture replaces a hybrid setup spanning GCP Functions and a VM, with R2 now serving as the single source of truth for file content and Cloudflare Workflows running the publishing pipeline.

POSTGRESQL'S MVCC IS BAD: SO IS EVERYONE ELSE'S

PostgreSQL's MVCC creates write amplification, table bloat, vacuum pressure, and transaction-ID maintenance by storing old row versions in the table, but competing designs merely move those costs elsewhere. Oracle and InnoDB charge writers and historical readers through undo logs, SQL Server pressures its version store, MongoDB consumes cache and history storage, and LSM databases defer cleanup to compaction, making MVCC a choice about who pays rather than a problem any engine has eliminated.

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