More data, more data
Jul 12, 2016Hunter Blanks

Summary
This post details the state of processing edge logs (HTTP and DNS) for Cloudflare's Data Team. It highlights the scale of data generated (360TB/day), the infrastructure used (Kafka clusters, CitusDB), and what has worked well (log forwarder, Kafka, Log Share, CitusDB, Platform/SRE support). It also outlines future work, including improving customer-facing service reliability, building new analytics systems (mentioning Spark Streaming), developing new data pipelines, and enhancing tooling for complex analysis.
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