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Vercel Blog

Preventing the stampede: Request collapsing in the Vercel CDN

When you deploy a Next.js app with (ISR), pages get regenerated on-demand after their cache expires. ISR lets you get the performance benefits of static generation while keeping your content fresh.Incremental Static Regeneration But there's a problem. When many users request the same ISR route at once and the cache is expired, each request can trigger its own function invocation. This is called a "cache stampede." It wastes compute, overloads your backend, and can cause downtime. The Vercel CDN

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Cloudflare Changelog

Pipelines - Pipelines now supports SQL transformations and Apache Iceberg

Today, we're launching the new Cloudflare Pipelines: a streaming data platform that ingests events, transforms them with SQL, and writes to R2 as Apache Iceberg tables or Parquet files. Pipelines can receive events via HTTP endpoints or Worker bindings, transform them with SQL, and deliver to R2 with exactly-once guarantees. This makes it easy to build analytics-ready warehouses for server logs, mobile application events, IoT telemetry, or clickstream data without managing streaming infrastructu

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Cloudflare Changelog

R2 SQL - Announcing R2 SQL

Today, we're launching the open beta for R2 SQL: A serverless, distributed query engine that can efficiently analyze petabytes of data in Apache Iceberg tables managed by R2 Data Catalog. R2 SQL is ideal for exploring analytical and time-series data stored in R2, such as logs, events from Pipelines, or clickstream and user behavior data. If you already have a table in R2 Data Catalog, running queries is as simple as: npx wrangler r2 sql query YOUR_WAREHOUSE " SELECT user_id, event_t

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Cloudflare Changelog

Browser Run - Browser Rendering Playwright GA, Stagehand support (Beta), and higher limits

We’re shipping three updates to Browser Rendering: Playwright support is now Generally Available and synced with Playwright v1.55, giving you a stable foundation for critical automation and AI-agent workflows. We’re also adding Stagehand support (Beta) so you can combine code with natural language instructions to build more resilient automations. Finally, we’ve tripled limits for paid plans across both the REST API and Browser Sessions to help you scale. To get started with Stagehand, refer to t

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Cloudflare Changelog

AI Search - AI Search (formerly AutoRAG) now with More Models To Choose From

AutoRAG is now AI Search! The new name marks a new and bigger mission: to make world-class search infrastructure available to every developer and business. With AI Search you can now use models from different providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. By attaching your provider keys to the AI Gateway linked to your AI Search instance, you can use many more models for both embedding and inference. To use AI Search with other model providers: Add provider keys to AI Gateway Go to AI > AI Gateway in the

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Cloudflare Changelog

Containers - Run more Containers with higher resource limits

You can now run more Containers concurrently with higher limits on CPU, memory, and disk. LimitNew LimitPrevious Limit Memory for concurrent live Container instances400GiB40GiB vCPU for concurrent live Container instances10020 Disk for concurrent live Container instances2TB100GB You can now run 1000 instances of the dev instance type, 400 instances of basic, or 100 instances of standard concurrently. This opens up new possibilities for running larger-scale workloads on Containers. See the get

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