Architecture Articles

Cloudflare introduces Automatic Return Routing (ARR), a stateful tracking solution that resolves IP address overlap in enterprise private networks without NAT or VRF configuration.

SASE

Cloudflare One

Google Cloud

55 min read

Architecture•2026-03-04

The AI-native core: Highly resilient telco architecture using Google Kubernetes Engine

This post explores how Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) serves as a high-performance foundation for modernizing telecommunications network infrastructure with AI-native capabilities.

Containers & Kubernetes

Architecture•2026-03-03

Data Strategy = AI Strategy Series: Transforming Developers into AI Architects with Google Cloud

This post introduces an enterprise AI architecture framework arguing that data strategy and AI strategy are inseparable in 2026, using Google Cloud's database services as the foundation.

Developers & Practitioners

GitHub

96 min read

Architecture•2026-03-03

How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server

GitHub Engineering rebuilt the search architecture in GitHub Enterprise Server using Elasticsearch's Cross Cluster Replication (CCR) to achieve true high availability.

41 min read

Architecture•2026-02-24

Piqama: Pinterest Quota Management Ecosystem

Pinterest's Piqama is a generic quota management ecosystem that handles the full lifecycle of resource quotas across Big Data Processing and Online Services.

Architecture•2026-02-19

Our Multi-Agent Architecture for Smarter Advertising

Spotify introduces a multi-agent AI architecture to unify advertising media planning across Direct, Self-Serve, and Programmatic buying channels.

Architecture•2026-02-13

Shedding old code with ecdysis: graceful restarts for Rust services at Cloudflare

Cloudflare open-sourced ecdysis, a Rust library enabling zero-downtime graceful process restarts for high-traffic network services.

Architecture•2026-02-12

Spotlight on SIG Architecture: API Governance

This article is an interview with Jordan Liggitt, lead of the Kubernetes SIG Architecture API Governance subproject, covering the goals, scope, and practices of API governance in Kubernetes.

Cloudflare

71 min read

Architecture•2026-02-03

Improve global upload performance with R2 Local Uploads

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.

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