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Inside Hyperdrive: How we solved a rare Hyperdrive MySQL caching bug
While adding MySQL support to Hyperdrive, we found a subtle protocol bug when caching query results. Here is how we tracked down a 0.001% rate error and made Hyperdrive MySQL generally available.
Read original →Why Your Sandbox Never Quite Matches Production (And Why That's Fine)
Sandbox testing works best when you stop chasing production parity. Learn what environment drift actually costs and which parts are worth fixing.
Read original →Under the hood, off the hot path: How D1 scales to millions of databases
A deep dive into how D1 architected its control plane to scale and manage millions of databases, while keeping data plane query operations at the edge. We share guiding principles on how to build on the…
Read original →Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
Our strategies to optimize our data pipeline throughput without compromising data quality.
Read original →Keep calm and call clone with Rust
Ryan sits down with Josh Triplett, member of the Rust Leadership Team at the Rust Project, to chat about how the borrow checker delivers compile-time memory safety without garbage collection overhead, why Rust consistently ranks as…
Read original →Gemini 4 Argon now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 4 Argon from Google is now available on AI Gateway.Gemini 4 Argon is built for coding, agentic work, and complex reasoning. It has a 1M token context window, accepts text, image, PDF, and video input,…
Read original →Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster
Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster on Vercel, reducing the time spent preparing your project's files before a build.During rollout on build machines with more than two vCPUs:The average time to get project…
Read original →MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash now available on AI Gateway
MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash from Microsoft are now available on AI Gateway. Generate images from text or edit existing images through the AI SDK or the AI CLI, with one API key and no provider account.Both models…
Read original →Drama 3 now available on AI Gateway
Drama 3 from Fish Audio is now available on AI Gateway, and 80% off for 30 days (through Nov 12).The text-to-speech model is currently in preview and lets you direct voice performances with natural-language instructions in…
Read original →Filter, reshape, and redact logs before export with Transformers
Logpush now supports Transformers, allowing teams to filter, redact, and reshape log streams using SQL before export. Powered by Apache DataFusion and Apache Arrow, Transformers apply those changes directly to log data before it reaches the…
Read original →Beyond the AI noise: How Stack Overflow is rethinking tech hiring
It’s gotten exponentially harder to identify talent that we feel is a good fit for our teams at the top of the application funnel.
Read original →Muse Wonder now available on AI Gateway
Muse Wonder from Meta is now available on AI Gateway. The model is designed for coding, long-running agents, and computer use. It can plan multi-step tasks, delegate work to sub-agents, and recover from errors as work…
Read original →Agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI
Your agent can now use the Vercel CLI to buy a domain. The agent discovers candidates with vercel domains search, checks availability and registrar pricing with vercel domains check and vercel domains price, and initiates the…
Read original →Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash
We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. We’ve also lowered Clef-flash pricing and boosted Clef inference speeds by up to 2.0x.
Read original →Deployment Storage billing begins for existing Pro teams
Deployment Storage and Functions Storage billing will begin for all Pro teams at $0.10 per GB-month. Check your email for details about when billing will start for your team. To keep storage costs low, the deployment…
Read original →New Pro teams now default to 30-day deployment retention
New Pro teams now default to a 30-day deployment retention period.Coding agents have accelerated development, increasing deployment frequency and the amount of stored deployment history. Shorter retention keeps recent history available while limiting older history and…
Read original →A Treatise on Model Oriented Programming Languages
Introducing on-demand CPU and memory profiling with flamegraphs for Workers and Durable Objects
On-demand CPU and memory profiling for Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects is now available. Now you can generate interactive flamegraphs directly in production to quickly track down memory leaks and performance bottlenecks.
Read original →Deno is joining Cloudflare
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places.
Read original →Taking a look under your agent’s hood
Ryan is joined by Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer at Datadog, to talk about applying observability to non-deterministic AI agents, blurring the boundaries between software development and production workflows, and navigating emerging challenges in AI security…
Read original →How Rillet ships 3× faster with AI agents on Vercel
Rillet on VercelTripled shipping rate in three months with eve agents deployed on VercelTwo-person team closed 800+ Linear tickets in its first 4 monthsBuilder access via Enterprise Managed Users, SSO, and Directory SyncShips customer-requested changes to…
Read original →Liquid AI's d1 is available on AI Gateway
Liquid d1 is now available on AI Gateway.d1 is a decision model that evaluates shared state against typed questions for classification, routing, and scoring. It returns structured answers with probabilities without generating text tokens. d1 also…
Read original →Production-grade LLMs and agents: a field guide
A maturity model for taking agents from an impressive demo to a system people can depend on — with a self-assessment and the map to a deep-dive on each layer.
Read original →Part 5: Operating an LLM system: observability, cost, routing, and the platform underneath
Your service can be 100% up and still quietly approving the wrong things, burning its budget, or failing over into untested quality. Level 5 is the infrastructure that lets you see your decisions, bound your spend,…
Read original →Skip sending request bodies to Routing Middleware
You can now skip sending client request bodies to Routing Middleware with skipMiddlewareRequestBody. This reduces incoming Fast Origin Transfer usage for middleware invocations and can improve time to first byte, especially for requests with large bodies.Enable…
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