Welcome to Birthday Week 2024

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Welcome to Birthday Week 2024

We are thrilled to celebrate the 14th anniversary of our launch, which we think of as our birthday! Join us for a week as we use our Birthday Week to launch new products, unveil new features, make exciting announcements, and much more. This is easily our favorite week of the year because it allows our team to give back to the Internet and live up to our mission.

Check out the blog by our founders:

Cloudflare’s 2024 Annual Founders’ Letter

Wrapping up another Birthday Week celebration

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Friday

Expanding Cloudflare’s support for open source projects with Project Alexandria

6 More Friday

• Our container platform is in production. It has GPUs. Here’s an early look

• Advancing cybersecurity: Cloudflare implements a new bug bounty VIP program as part of CISA Pledge commitment

• Empowering builders: introducing the Dev Alliance and Workers Launchpad Cohort #4

• Network trends and natural language: Cloudflare Radar’s new Data Explorer & AI Assistant

• AI Everywhere with the WAF Rule Builder Assistant, Cloudflare Radar AI Insights, and updated AI bot protection

• Reaffirming our commitment to free

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Thursday

Startup Program revamped: build and grow on Cloudflare with up to $250,000 in...

5 More Thursday

• Builder Day 2024: 18 big updates to the Workers platform

• Cloudflare’s bigger, better, faster AI platform

• Making Workers AI faster and more efficient: Performance optimization with KV cache compression and speculative decoding

• Zero-latency SQLite storage in every Durable Object

• We made Workers KV up to 3x faster — here’s the data

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Wednesday

Introducing Speed Brain: helping web pages load 45% faster

3 More Wednesday

• New standards for a faster and more private Internet

• TURN and anycast: making peer connections work globally

• Cloudflare’s 12th Generation servers — 145% more performant and 63% more efficient

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Tuesday

A safer Internet with Cloudflare: free threat intelligence, analytics, and...

4 More Tuesday

• Cloudflare partners with Internet Service Providers and network equipment providers to deliver a safer browsing experience to millions of homes

• Automatically generating Cloudflare’s Terraform provider

• Cloudflare helps verify the security of end-to-end encrypted messages by auditing key transparency for WhatsApp

• Instant Purge: invalidating cached content in under 150ms

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Monday

Making zone management more efficient with batch DNS record updates

3 More Monday

• Network performance update: Birthday Week 2024

• Introducing Ephemeral IDs: a new tool for fraud detection

• Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content

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Check back everyday of Birthday Week, read the blogs, have some , watch CloudflareTV & celebrate with us!

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