Immerse Sessions: How Surfshark supercharges its VPN infrastructure with Cloudflare Workers

Kęstutis Saldžiūnas, Technical Product Manager at Surfshark, sits down with Tim Dowdall, Senior Manager and Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare, and Mark Dembo, Principal Solutions Architect at Cloudflare, to discuss how Surfshark leverages Cloudflare Workers to enhance their VPN service infrastructure. Saldžiūnas shares insights from managing a rapidly growing privacy and security platform serving nearly 3 million customers.

In this conversation, they explore how Surfshark uses Cloudflare Workers to handle over 10 billion requests monthly while improving response times up to 3x in regions without local data centers. They examine Surfshark's journey from using Workers for credential stuffing protection to managing 40% of their traffic through the platform, and why moving computation to the edge with Workers and KV storage has helped reduce infrastructure costs while enhancing security and user experience.

The discussion concludes with a look at the future of AI integration in VPN services and Surfshark's plans for machine learning models at the edge, as well as their transition to configuration as code and enhanced monitoring capabilities to support their rapid growth. #EdgeComputing #Security #VPN #CloudflareWorkers

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