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Welcome to Developer Week 2024 | April 1-5

Cloudflare Developer Week April 1-5, our week-long series of new product announcements and events dedicated to enhancing the developer experience to fuel productivity!
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Updates and Announcements

Welcome to Developer Week 2024 - Sunday 3-31-2024
Welcome to Developer Week 2024

We’re kicking off 2024’s Developer Week, and we’re excited to welcome you to the week and give you a small preview of what to expect, and how we’re thinking about the future of our platform.

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Welcome to Developer Week: making state easy with D1 GA, Hyperdrive, Queues and Workers Analytics Engine updates
Making state easy with D1 GA, Hyperdrive, Queues and Workers Analytics Engine updates

A core part of any full-stack application is storing and persisting data! We’re excited to kick off the week with announcements that help developers build stateful applications on top of Cloudflare, including making D1, Cloudflare’s SQL database and Hyperdrive, our database accelerating service, generally available.

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Building D1: a Global Database
Building D1: a Global Database

D1, Cloudflare’s SQL database, is now generally available. With new support for 10GB databases, data export, and enhanced query debugging, we empower developers to build production-ready applications with D1 to meet all their relational SQL needs. To support Workers in global applications, we’re sharing a sneak peek of our design and API for D1 global read replication to demonstrate how developers scale their workloads with D1.

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Why Workers environment variables contain live objects
Why Workers environment variables contain live objects

Bindings don't just reduce boilerplate. They are a core design feature of the Workers platform which simultaneously improve developer experience and application security in several ways. Usually these two goals are in opposition to each other, but bindings elegantly solve for both at the same time.

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Cities with GPUs momentum update
Leveling up Workers AI: General Availability and more new capabilities

Today, we’re excited to make a series of announcements, including Workers AI, Cloudflare’s inference platform becoming GA and support for fine-tuned models with LoRAs and one-click deploys from HuggingFace. Cloudflare Workers now supports the Python programming language, and more.

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Running fine-tuned models on Workers AI with LoRAs
Running fine-tuned models on Workers AI with LoRAs

Workers AI now supports fine-tuned models using LoRAs. But what is a LoRA and how does it work? In this post, we dive into fine-tuning, LoRAs and even some math to share the details of how it all works under the hood.

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Bringing Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly
Bringing Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly

Introducing Python support for Cloudflare Workers, now in open beta. We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the Workers runtime itself to the way Workers are deployed to Cloudflare’s network. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, Pyodide, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post.

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Major updates to R2
R2 adds event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier

We’re excited to announce three new features for Cloudflare R2: event notifications, support for migrations from Google Cloud Storage, and an infrequent access storage tier

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Data Anywhere
Data Anywhere with Pipelines, Event Notifications, and Workflows

We’re making it easier to build scalable, reliable, data-driven applications on top of our global network, and so we’re announcing a new Event Notifications framework; our take on durable execution, Workflows; and an upcoming streaming ingestion service, Pipelines.

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Prisma ORM now supports Cloudflare Workers and D1
Improving Cloudflare Workers and D1 developer experience with Prisma ORM

Together, Cloudflare and Prisma make it easier than ever to deploy globally available apps with a focus on developer experience. To further that goal, Prisma ORM now natively supports Cloudflare Workers and D1 in Preview. With version 5.12.0 of Prisma ORM you can now interact with your data stored in D1 from your Cloudflare Workers with the convenience of the Prisma Client API. Learn more and try it out now.

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PicsArt globally performant with CF
How Picsart leverages Cloudflare's Developer Platform to build globally performant services

Picsart, one of the world’s largest digital creation platforms, encountered performance challenges in catering to its global audience. Adopting Cloudflare's global-by-default Developer Platform emerged as the optimal solution, empowering Picsart to enhance performance and scalability substantially.

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Announcing Pages support for monorepos
Announcing Pages support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, database integrations and more!

Today, we’re launching four improvements to Pages that bring functionality previously restricted to Workers, with the goal of unifying the development experience between the two. Support for monorepos, wrangler.toml, new additions to Next.js support and database integrations!

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Providing developers with new tools for production safety
New tools for production safety — Gradual Deployments, Stack Traces, Rate Limiting, and API SDKs

Production readiness isn’t just about scale and reliability of the services you build with. Today we are announcing five updates that put more power in your hands – Gradual Deployments, Source mapped stack traces in Tail Workers, a new Rate Limiting API, brand-new API SDKs, and updates to Durable Objects – each built with mission-critical production services in mind.

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Announcing support for live clipping in Stream
What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images

With Cloudflare Calls in open beta, you can build real-time, serverless video and audio applications. Cloudflare Stream lets your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams. Finally, Cloudflare Images now supports automatic face cropping and has an upload widget that lets you easily integrate into your application.

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Cloudflare Calls is millions of cascading trees all the way down
Cloudflare Calls: millions of cascading trees all the way down

Cloudflare Calls is a serverless SFU and TURN service running at Cloudflare’s edge. It’s now in open beta and costs $0.05/ real-time GB. It’s 100% anycast WebRTC.

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Cloudflare acquires Baselime to expand serverless application observability capabilities
Cloudflare acquires Baselime to expand serverless application observability capabilities

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Cloudflare has acquired Baselime, a serverless observability company.

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WFP is available to PAYGO
Browser Rendering API GA, rolling out Cloudflare Snippets, SWR, and bringing Workers for Platforms to all users

Browser Rendering API is now available to all paid Workers customers with improved session management.

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Blazing fast development with full-stack frameworks and Cloudflare
Blazing fast development with full-stack frameworks and Cloudflare

Full-stack web development with Cloudflare is now faster and easier! You can now use your framework’s development server while accessing D1 databases, R2 object stores, AI models, and more. Iterate locally in milliseconds to build sophisticated web apps that run on Cloudflare. Let’s dev together!

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Cloudflare acquires PartyKit
Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user applications

We're thrilled to announce that PartyKit, a trailblazer in enabling developers to craft ambitious real-time, collaborative, multiplayer applications, is now a part of Cloudflare. This acquisition marks a significant milestone in our journey to redefine the boundaries of serverless computing, making it more dynamic, interactive, and, importantly, stateful.

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We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers
We've added JavaScript-native RPC to Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers now features a built-in RPC (Remote Procedure Call) system for use in Worker-to-Worker and Worker-to-Durable Object communication, with absolutely minimal boilerplate. We've designed an RPC system so expressive that calling a remote service can feel like using a library.

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Community Update
Community Update: empowering startups building on Cloudflare and creating an inclusive community

We’re excited to close out Developer Week by sharing updates on our Workers Launchpad program, our latest Developer Challenge, and the work we’re doing to ensure our community spaces – like our Discord and Community forums – are safe and inclusive for all developers.

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Developer Week 2024: Wrap up post
Developer Week 2024 wrap-up

Developer Week 2024 has officially come to a close. Here’s a quick recap of the announcements and in-depth technical explorations that went out last week.

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