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Cloudflare Expands Dev Tools Suite to Simplify Full-stack Management

• By John K. Waters
• April 11, 2024

Cloudflare has announced an expansion of its development tools suite, introducing four new products designed to simplify full-stack management for developers.

The initial product available, D1, is a global serverless SQL database engineered for high reliability and scalability without data loss. D1 supports up to 10-gigabyte databases and allows for 50,000 per account. It also enhances query debugging, enabling developers to identify time-consuming or costly queries or those that are simply inefficient.

D1 aims to enable developers to create production-ready applications that satisfy their relational SQL requirements. D1 maintains a no-cost tier and a $5 monthly plan supporting up to 25 billion row reads.

Today's D1 enhancements include broader read replication, increased database sizes, new "Time Travel" features to branch databases, and additional APIs for dynamic database queries or creation.

Cloudflare's Hyperdrive, a tool to globalize local databases, also launched today. It converts regional databases into distributed systems worldwide, improving global data access.

Hyperdrive automatically caches popular queries within Cloudflare's network, notably decreasing response times and simulating proximity to users. It supports leading drivers and Object Relational Mapper libraries out of the box, simplifying the user experience.

Future expansions for Hyperdrive include support for MySQL and integrations with databases in private networks, such as cloud VPC networks, through Cloudflare Tunnel and Magic WAN.

The third product debut is Queues, a message queuing service through Cloudflare Workers. It ensures reliable message delivery, supports asynchronous processing, and can transform, filter, and distribute messages across multiple queues.

The company also introduced the Workers Analytics Engine, offering high-cardinality analytics on a large scale with an integrated API. This service allows for the collection of telemetry data through Cloudflare Workers, featuring low-latency reporting, rapid querying, and adaptable analytics deployment across various applications.