Best of Cloudflare — May 2024

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·2y

    Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h

    Cloudflare demanded the website owner to pay $120k within 24 hours or they would take down all domains, leading to downtime and loss in customer trust.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·2y

    Cloudflare’s Trillion-Message Kafka Infrastructure: A Deep Dive

    Cloudflare's Kafka infrastructure has processed 1 trillion messages, demonstrating significant scaling and resilience. The engineering team faced challenges with coupling, unstructured communication, and common usage patterns. Lessons learned include the importance of balance between configuration and simplicity, visibility in distributed systems, well-defined contracts, and knowledge sharing.

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    Article
    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·2y

    Hanabi.rest - AI-based API building platform

    Hanabi.rest is an AI-based API building platform that optimizes code for Cloudflare Workers and uses Cloudflare stack for the backend. Vercel is used for front-end deployment and hosting, and Clerk is used for account management.

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    Avatar of phProduct Hunt·2y

    SvelteShip - Ship your SvelteKit, Set Sail!

    The author recommends using Supabase for user authentication and setting up a secure database, Stripe for payment processing, and hosting SvelteKit projects on Cloudflare for fast and simple deployment.

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    Avatar of primeagenThePrimeTime·2y

    Cloudflare: Pay Me 120k Or We Shut You Down

    Cloudflare allegedly forced the author to pay $120,000 upfront or risk having their website shut down. The author discusses the aggressive sales tactics of Cloudflare and shares their negative experience.

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