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The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
On Wednesday, August 12, Cloudflare migrated its blog to EmDash, a content management system built for Astro and Cloudflare. The move included a visual redesign and a backend overhaul to improve performance and scalability.
Why it matters
Visitors benefit from a faster website and new features like dark mode and better navigation. It also proves the system can handle extreme traffic and security threats without downtime.
The details
- The new architecture uses multiple caching layers to serve 70% of requests from cache.
- AI agents can now use Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to search blog posts.
- The system absorbed a 28,000 RPS DDoS attack on August 10th without issues.
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