NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real NerdsNov 19

Cloudflare postmortem reveals how a tiny database change broke the internet

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/cloudflare-postmortem/

InfoQAug 27, 2025

#Cloudflare redesigned #WorkersKV with a new hybrid storage architecture!

The result❓
✅ p99 read latencies dropped from 200ms to under 5ms
✅ Handles hundreds of billions of key-value pairs

Want to see how they did it? Read the #CaseStudy 👉 https://bit.ly/468zYTo

#InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #KeyValueStore #DistributedCache #CloudArchitecture

Antonis CharitonNov 16, 2022

I wanted to learn #Cloudflare #Workers, out of curiosity, for the past 5 years.

I built a fully functional OCSP Responder using #WorkersKV to achieve that:

https://blog.daknob.net/cf-ocsp/

Standards-compliant, misbehaving-client-tolerant, and hopefully extremely affordable and reliable for most CAs.

A scalable OCSP Responder on Cloudflare Workers

CloudflareMay 2, 2019
Rapid Development of #Serverless Chatbots with Cloudflare Workers and #WorkersKV -https://cfl.re/2KZ0A1H 
#Cloudflare
Rapid Development of Serverless Chatbots with Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV

I'm the Product Manager for the Internal Tools team here at Cloudflare. We recently identified a need for a new tool around service ownership. As a fast growing engineering organization, ownership of services changes fairly frequently.

CloudflareApr 30, 2019
Rapid Development of #Serverless Chatbots with Cloudflare Workers and #WorkersKV -https://cfl.re/2KZ0A1H 
#Cloudflare
Rapid Development of Serverless Chatbots with Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV

I'm the Product Manager for the Internal Tools team here at Cloudflare. We recently identified a need for a new tool around service ownership. As a fast growing engineering organization, ownership of services changes fairly frequently.