Cloudflare
NOMINEE OVERVIEW
Developers.cloudflare.com is the documentation hub for over a million developers building on Cloudflare's global network. Our mission at Cloudflare is to help build a better Internet, and this portal empowers, educates, and inspires innovation at an industry-leading scale. As a comprehensive, real-world utility built for Cloudflare users with Cloudflare products, this hub is developer-first and edge-native, focused on lowering the entry barriers to the Cloudflare ecosystem.
We serve a diverse developer community, from independent front-end and full-stack developers using Cloudflare Pages and Workers, to enterprise security professionals, network engineers, and AI/ML engineers leveraging Workers AI for edge inference. This wide appeal demands a portal that is both technically deep and broadly accessible.
Features:
- AI as a Development Tool: AI enhances content discovery, personalized learning, and intelligent, contextual support by showcasing topics like how to deploy and run AI models directly on our network via Workers AI.
- Integrated Design System: https://developers.cloudflare.com/style-guide/ is a living style guide that provides clear visual examples and code for consistent component building, accelerating development and ensuring aesthetic consistency and allowing us to leverage AI in our builds.
- Real-world Use Cases: Examples go beyond "Hello World" to solve common and complex problems, like URL shortening, edge authentication, and global caching.
- Learning Paths: Structured, step-by-step guides simplify complex topics, easing the onboarding process.
- Interactive Elements: Runnable code snippets and embedded sandboxes allow direct experimentation for various languages.
NOMINATION RATIONALE
1) BEST UNIFIED ENTERPRISE DEVELOPER PORTAL
Enterprise users don’t want to have to hunt and find information spread across different areas.
We solve this by having all of our docs – not just some of our docs – live entirely within developers.cloudflare.com. We have developer docs, how-to docs, support docs, reference docs, and API docs all pulled together into a seamless, searchable experience on developers.cloudflare.com.
2) BEST AI-ENABLED DEVELOPER PORTAL
At Cloudflare, we’re matching and then raising the table stakes for AI-enabled portals.
Specifically, we focus on AI consumability and AI customer experience. Our engineering team has put a ton of effort into adapting to AI standards and then exceeding them, which then feed back into our AI customer experience
3) BEST ONBOARDING EXPERIENCE IN A DEVELOPER PORTAL
We make onboarding to our developer platform as easy as a button click… even if you’re building something complex.
We have a pattern in our docs developed by our Product team called a “Deploy to Cloudflare” button.
When you click that button – for example at https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/get-started/#quick-start – Cloudflare automatically provisions all the resources and deploys an application on your behalf.
Zero to deploy in a few clicks from our docs.
