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• Visitor Analytics Shows Only 0.5 Percent of Your Traffic — Judge Bots by Origin, Not by Self-Report

  Drawing on one year of defending a 1.5-million-page site against scrapers, this post sets out the principles of dealing with bot traffic. JavaScript-based analytics cannot count bots, so you have to read server logs, and

  2026-08-09 · 11 min read #network#bot#cloudflare#waf#scraping

• Networking 2026 Complete Guide - Cilium, WireGuard, Tailscale, Nebula, Istio, Envoy, Cloudflare Tunnel Deep Dive

  A complete look at the 2026 production networking stack. eBPF-based K8s networking (Cilium, Calico eBPF, Antrea), overlay VPNs (WireGuard, Tailscale, Nebula, ZeroTier, Twingate, OpenZiti), service meshes (Istio ambient,

  2026-05-16 · 18 min read #networking#cilium#ebpf#wireguard#tailscale

• Frontend CI/CD & Deployment 2025 — GitHub Actions, Turborepo, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Preview, Canary, Feature Flags, SLSA/SBOM (S6 E12)

  CI/CD for frontend is no longer "build and ship." It is caching, preview environments, canary rollouts, feature flags, supply-chain attestation (SLSA/SBOM), and rollback-first thinking. This guide compares GitHub Actions

  2026-04-15 · 7 min read #frontend#ci-cd#deployment#github-actions#turborepo

• DNS Deep Dive — Resolution, Caching, DNSSEC, DoH/DoT, Anycast, and 1.1.1.1 Internals (2025)

  Trillions of times per day, yet most engineers understand DNS only superficially. This guide dissects DNS from first principles: hierarchical namespace, recursive/iterative resolution, caching and TTLs, record types (A/A

  2026-04-15 · 12 min read #dns#networking#dnssec#doh#anycast

• CDN Complete Guide — Cache, Edge Compute, Origin Shield, and HTTP Caching Headers (2025)

  Everything about CDNs — the history of edge caching since Akamai in 1998, the routing trinity of Anycast plus DNS plus GSLB, the physical anatomy of PoPs and edge servers, Cache Key design and Vary header pitfalls, HTTP

  2026-04-15 · 15 min read #cdn#caching#edge-compute#cloudflare#fastly

• Architecture Case Studies — Netflix, Stripe, Cloudflare, Shopify in 2025

  Netflix's 7,000 microservices, Stripe's Ruby monolith, Cloudflare's Workers ecosystem, Shopify's Black Friday scaling — real architecture drawn from public engineering blogs.

  2026-04-15 · 13 min read #architecture#case-study#netflix#stripe#cloudflare

• Complete Guide to CDN & Edge Caching Strategies 2025: Cache Invalidation, ETag, Stale-While-Revalidate

  Everything about CDNs and caching. HTTP cache headers (Cache-Control/ETag/Vary), how CDNs work, edge caching, the hard problem of cache invalidation (one of the two hard problems), Stale-While-Revalidate, and a compariso

  2026-04-15 · 14 min read #cdn#cache#edge-computing#http-cache#cache-invalidation

• CDN and Edge Computing Deep Dive — Anycast, Cache Invalidation, DDoS Defense, Lambda@Edge vs Workers vs Compute

  From Akamai in 1998 to 2025 edge computing. The magic of Anycast, cache tier design, the philosophy of cache invalidation, the three-layer DDoS defense, and an architecture comparison of Lambda@Edge vs Cloudflare Workers

  2026-04-15 · 14 min read #cdn#edge-computing#cloudflare#akamai#fastly

• Cloudflare AI Gateway Practical Guide: Observability, Reliability, and Cost Control for AI Traffic

  A practical, current guide to Cloudflare AI Gateway as of April 12, 2026, covering observability, caching, retries, rate limiting, model fallback, and Dynamic Routing.

  2026-04-12 · 5 min read #ai-platform#cloudflare#ai-gateway#observability#caching

• AI Gateway Platforms Comparison Guide: Vercel AI Gateway vs Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

  A practical comparison of AI gateway layers as of 2026-04-12, showing where Vercel AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway, and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway belong in the stack.

  2026-04-12 · 4 min read #ai-platform#ai-gateway#comparison#vercel#cloudflare

• Cloudflare Agents and Durable Objects for AI Apps: A Practical Guide

  A practical 2026 guide to Cloudflare Agents and Durable Objects for AI apps, covering the architecture, why state and long-running work matter, how it differs from stateless serverless, and a rollout checklist.

  2026-04-12 · 7 min read #cloudflare#cloudflare-agents#durable-objects#ai-agent#mcp

• WebAssembly 2025: Beyond the Browser — How Wasm Is Reshaping Server-Side, Edge, and AI Computing ♪ Listenable

  WASI 0.3 native async, Akamai acquires Fermyon, microsecond cold starts — WebAssembly reached production-ready status for server-side in 2025. Complete developer guide from Wasm fundamentals to edge deployment, AI infere

  2026-03-22 · 22 min read #webassembly#wasi#edge-computing#serverless#rust