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Cloudflare announces Local Uploads for R2 in open beta, enabling faster global upload performance by writing object data to a storage location near the client before asynchronously replicating it to the bucket's primary region.

Performance

Storage

Cloudflare

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Architecture•2026-01-30

Building vertical microfrontends on Cloudflare’s platform

This post introduces a new Cloudflare Worker template for Vertical Microfrontends (VMFE) that maps multiple independent Workers to a single domain by URL path.

Architecture•2026-01-27

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

This post describes a proof-of-concept Matrix homeserver ported to Cloudflare Workers, eliminating traditional operational overhead while adding post-quantum cryptography.

Cloudflare Workers

Durable Objects

Cloudflare Workers KV

Architecture•2026-01-12

Pay As a Local

This post explains how Airbnb launched 20+ local payment methods (LPMs) across global markets in 14 months through architectural modernization.

Architecture•2026-01-07

Why We Use Separate Tech Stacks for Personalization and Experimentation

Spotify explains why they maintain separate tech stacks for personalization and experimentation rather than combining them into one system.

Architecture•2025-09-24

Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

Airbnb shares how they completely rearchitected Mussel, their internal key-value store for derived data, migrating from v1 to a NewSQL-based v2 running in production for over a year.

Architecture•2025-09-17

Viaduct, Five Years On: Modernizing the Data-Oriented Service Mesh

Airbnb's Viaduct data-oriented service mesh celebrates five years with an open-source release and a major architectural overhaul called "Viaduct Modern".

Architecture•2025-09-16

Taming Service-Oriented Architecture Using A Data-Oriented Service Mesh

Airbnb introduces Viaduct, a data-oriented service mesh built on GraphQL that addresses the complexity of large-scale microservices dependency graphs.