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NetflixNetflix

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

Engineer a real-time distributed graph query service over billions of nodes and edges, using gRPC, breadth-first traversal, asynchronous I/O, and selective caching to deliver sub-100ms, multi-hop queries.

8/7/2026
NetflixNetflix

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

Netflix's Real-Time Distributed Graph powers fast, multi-hop queries through a BFS-based, async-first serving layer with selective caching and gRPC, delivering sub-100ms responses at scale.

8/7/2026
NetflixNetflix

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

Explores Netflix's Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG) query layer, detailing a breadth-first, async-first, gRPC-driven design that streams adjacency lists, applies per-edge-type filters, and uses selective caching (EVCache) to deliver sub-100ms multi-hop queries at scale.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

A technical overview of merging AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single AI control plane, delivering automatic observability, unified billing, and model-first routing across providers.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding

Cloudflare unveils a revamped community program featuring Cloudflare Ambassadors and Cloudflare Community Engineers, plus an additional $1M in open-source funding to empower developers, sustain open-source projects, and strengthen engagement on Discord and local communities.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language

Radar Researcher combines AI and API-backed access to Cloudflare Radar data, allowing plain-language queries to generate interactive charts and explain results in context.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Explores how to manage 'agentic' traffic by shifting from static checks to continuous, trust-based risk assessment using tools like Precursor and BotBase, and outlines adaptive defenses for a safer Internet.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

Unifies AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single AI control plane that centralizes access, observability, billing, and model-first routing across providers.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding

Cloudflare debuts Ambassadors and Community Engineers programs to empower global developer communities, backed by a fresh $1M in open-source funding to sustain and grow open-source projects.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language

Radar Researcher is a plain-language AI tool that lets users explore Cloudflare Radar's open data through the API, delivering interactive charts and step-by-step explanations for fast, verifiable insights.

8/7/2026
CloudflareCloudflare

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Explores continuous, trust-based detection of agentic traffic on the Internet, detailing BotBase and Precursor and the new Adaptive Intelligence to distinguish good and bad behaviors.

8/7/2026
Apple MLApple ML

Beyond Next-Token Prediction: A Performance Characterization of Diffusion versus Autoregressive Language Models

Performance-focused comparison of diffusion and autoregressive language models showing how DLMs achieve higher arithmetic intensity through parallel decoding while facing long-context scaling, with block-wise decoding and batched inference shaping throughput and latency.

8/7/2026