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Fix a Postgres storage bottleneck: 3 queries to confirm it, and a test where local NVMe hit 9.2x the TPS of gp3. Plus the durability bill nobody quotes.
Self-host Cloudflare Workers with workerd today, and add celld when Durable Objects must scale. The working config, the bucket setup, and what stays alpha.
Set your Vercel deployment retention policy before October 23 deletes old builds. The 30-day change, $0.10/GB-month math, and what rollback loses.
How to ground AI agent findings in evidence: validate every citation in code. Cloudflare's 3-state pattern plus a TypeScript checker you can copy.
Build a Cloudflare Streamline video pipeline: a Worker and Durable Object steer FFmpeg in a Container. See the fixed 4-step order and the limits to know.
How to stop an LLM saying as a language model: it's the chat template, not the weights. Disclaimers drop 17 points without one — the fix, and its limits.