Announcing Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

With traditional Remote Procedure Call (RPC) architectures, there exists a core challenge: producers and consumers must align in scale and in time. If your producers send too much data for your consumers to handle or if your consumers or downstream services become unavailable, events are dropped. This problem is compounded with multiple consumers that need to independently process the data. For example, an ecommerce backend may emit events when transactions are completed, which need to be read by an analytics system and a fraud detection service. We can solve this by decoupling our producers and consumers — inserting a service in the middle that absorbs writes while allowing independent readers to consume at their own pace. Today we are launching Cloudflare K2 in…