Best of Cloudflare — January 2024

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    Processing a Million Logs per Second: A Deep Dive into CloudFlare's Technology

    CloudFlare processes an incredible amount of data by utilizing technologies like Kafka, ELK stack, and Clickhouse.

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    Recorded CloudFlare Firing And CEO Response

    A recorded Zoom call between an employee, HR, and the CEO of CloudFlare discussing the employee's termination. The employee questions the reasons for being let go and expresses frustration at the lack of explanation. The CEO acknowledges the dissatisfaction but does not provide specific details, leading to further frustration.

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    How Cloudflare Was Able to Support 55 Million Requests per Second With Only 15 Postgres Clusters

    Cloudflare achieved the ability to support 55 million requests per second using only 15 Postgres clusters. They utilized PgBouncer as a connection pooler to manage Postgres connections, avoided the thundering herd problem, employed high-performance bare metal servers instead of cloud infrastructure, used the TCP Vegas congestion avoidance algorithm for concurrency management, ordered queries at the PgBouncer layer, and ensured high availability with the Stolon cluster manager.

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