AI Is Making Cloudflare Even Faster
While generative artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be taking the world by storm, there's more to AI than generating text, images, and other content. Yes, it's cool that ChatGPT can answer complex questions, write long-form text, and produce functional code. But just as impressive, if not nearly as visible, is the work other forms of AI are doing behind the scenes.
Cloudflare (NYSE: NET), first and foremost, is a content delivery network that protects its customers' servers from malicious traffic and attacks. The company's global edge network sits in between users and the content they're requesting. When a request comes in, Cloudflare must determine if the request is legitimate, and it must do so as quickly as possible. Tack on too many additional milliseconds to a response time, and the end user will notice.
Cloudflare serves more than 46 million HTTP requests per second, a number that can jump to 63 million HTTP requests per second during peak times. For every single request, Cloudflare must make sure it's not letting bad traffic through. That's on top of running all the other features a customer has enabled, including running custom code through the Workers platform.
Source Fool.com
