Ah, also. Here's a blog on now Hyperdrive actually works. We're finally able to really get into the

Ah, also. Here's a blog on now Hyperdrive actually works. We're finally able to really get into the weeds of it, and I had a blast writing this.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-hyperdrive-speeds-up-database-access/

The Cloudflare Blog

Pools across the sea: how Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases ...

Hyperdrive, Cloudflare's global connection pooler, relies on some key innovations to make your database connections work. We go deep into the details of what that looks like, in celebration of announcing its availability for Free Plan customers.

nubb•4/8/25, 1:24 PM

Cloudflare is the best

AAJR Ah, also. Here's a blog on now Hyperdrive actually works. We're finally able to...

Isaac McFadyen•4/8/25, 1:26 PM

This is a very neat blog post/deep dive, thank you!

Isaac McFadyen•4/8/25, 1:31 PM

I remember the SQC days :lul:

Isaac McFadyen•4/8/25, 1:31 PM

We never knew what it was and had to guess what the acronym was when it showed up :lul:

IIsaac McFadyen I remember the SQC days :lul:

AJROP•4/8/25, 1:33 PM

Funnily enough I didn't join Cloudflare until after it had a product name, so I kept wondering what this competing product was I kept seeing references to in code/docs. Eventually someone noticed and clued me in....

MMatt Silverlock @Hyperdrive Two big ones today for Hyperdrive: * Hyperdrive now supports MySQL: ...

thomasgauvin•4/8/25, 1:54 PM

Super excited for these two to land! We've been putting a ton of work to make Hyperdrive your go-to choice, looking forward to getting all the feedback!

<@235148962103951360>•4/8/25, 1:56 PM

cloudflare is the goat

<@235148962103951360>•4/8/25, 1:56 PM

Mmariano Great news!, I was trying to test it connecting to my MYSQL 8 server in a GCP in...

AJROP•4/8/25, 2:50 PM

We tested in GCP and do support it. We also explicitly do support mysql_native_passwordmysql_native_password. I'm surprised, that's basically the happy path for us.

@thomasgauvin first bit of beta feedback here. I'll defer to you on the best way to capture details here.

Nick•4/8/25, 3:02 PM

I'm super excited for mysql hyperdrive. I am wondering, there was a question a year ago about read replicas. It sounds like that's not necessarily supported right now?

AJROP•4/8/25, 3:03 PM

Not at the moment, no. It's still something we're looking at doing, but no firm commitments on whether/when just yet.

Nick•4/8/25, 3:03 PM

okay, i guess one option is to have two clients, one for writing and one for reading, and use hyperdrive for writing?

AJROP•4/8/25, 3:04 PM

That's one option. It's probaly more performant to have hyperdrive for both, imo. Just point the reading configs at your replicas. Our internal teams do it that way for the moment.

Nick•4/8/25, 3:05 PM

okay, if i have geographically distributed read replicas is it smart enough to have endpoints in multiple regions?

Nick•4/8/25, 3:05 PM

or would i need to know which read replica to point to?

AJROP•4/8/25, 3:06 PM

Ah. Unfortunately the second one, for now. That gap is why we're considering building in proper support.

Nick•4/8/25, 3:06 PM

right, gotcha

Nick•4/8/25, 3:07 PM

im not sure if planetscale has a way to point to a specific replica, will need to dig into it. thanks!

AAJR Ah. Unfortunately the second one, for now. That gap is why we're considering b...

kunal•4/8/25, 4:01 PM

For now, we have multiple hyperdrives (one for each replica), and use the cf geolocation headers to pick the right DB. But would be very excited to get rid of that custom logic and let Cloudflare route to the actual closest DB

AAJR Alright, looks like we're back to baseline latencies. CC @chimame

kunal•4/8/25, 4:04 PM

We got a bunch of alerts last night as well, and couldn't find any issues wrong with our Postgres instances so assumed it was Hyperdrive. Any chance these can be added to Cloudflare status in the future so it's a little easier to tell if its our fault or not?

Kkunal We got a bunch of alerts last night as well, and couldn't find any issues wrong ...

AJROP•4/8/25, 4:17 PM

That's reasonable. Let me talk to the team about it and get back to you.

KingMaker•4/8/25, 4:37 PM

@AJR hey. Needed a little help with scaling hyperdrive.

We currently use Postgres with neon and we are currently hitting connection limits (1M requests per minute). We’ve plugged in hyperdrive and got it working but will occasionally hit connection limits.

Any pointers?

AJROP•4/8/25, 4:39 PM

Probably need to up your connection limit. DM me your account + Hyperdrive IDs and I'll get you increased.

We really need to make this self-service.

oritwoen•4/8/25, 5:08 PM

After connect mysql hyperdrive with mysql2 lib I have: " "message": "proxy request failed, cannot connect to the specified address", on requests

Nick•4/8/25, 5:17 PM

Has anyone had luck troubleshooting "Invalid certificate verification context" when creating a Hyperdrive configuration through a Tunnel?

ulrjch•4/9/25, 3:47 AM

I'm getting this message when running create command:

Membership roles in "": Contact account super admin to change your permissions.
- Super Administrator - All Privileges

Membership roles in "": Contact account super admin to change your permissions.
- Super Administrator - All Privileges

How can I fix it?

Mini256•4/9/25, 8:06 AM

I tried to connect TiDB Serverless with Hyperdrive. But I got an error:

Failed to connect to the provided database: Hyperdrive does not currently support: Hyperdrive does not currently support MySQL AuthSwitchRequest messages

AAJR Probably need to up your connection limit. DM me your account + Hyperdrive IDs a...

KingMaker•4/9/25, 1:08 PM

Sending you a dm. Thanks

MMini256 I tried to connect TiDB Serverless with Hyperdrive. But I got an error: Failed...

Isaac McFadyen•4/9/25, 2:30 PM

This is probably due to enabling client cert security on the DB which Hyperdrive doesn't currently support, see Great news!, I was trying to test it

yevgen•4/9/25, 3:58 PM

One last thing for this week: Hyperdrive now supports custom TLS/SSL certificates
https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/2025-04-09-hyperdrive-custom-certificate-support/

Cloudflare Docs

Hyperdrive now supports custom TLS/SSL certificates

yevgen•4/9/25, 3:59 PM

Support for server certificates and client certificates is not available for MySQL (beta). We will add it in the coming weeks.

Yyevgen One last thing for this week: Hyperdrive now supports custom TLS/SSL certificate...

thomasgauvin•4/9/25, 4:03 PM

Super excited that this is landing as well, connect to your database however you want!

password auth, IP whitelists, tunnels and now stricter SSL modes and client authentication!

Uulrjch I'm getting this message when running create command: ```Membership roles in "":...

ulrjch•4/9/25, 5:06 PM

any help?

Uulrjch any help? 😦

thomasgauvin•4/9/25, 5:14 PM

Responded in thread

stu•4/9/25, 11:12 PM

Hey, I'm trying to create a Hyperdrive instance with a Render Postgres DB. I paste in the connection string (which works when I connect directly to it in my code), but I keep getting status "inactive" in the dashboard. I tried both creating through the dash and with the wrangler CLI, and didn't receive any errors or anything. Created a post in the community forums https://community.cloudflare.com/t/hyperdrive-instance-status-inactive/787613. Any idea how to resolve this? Thanks!

Sstu Hey, I'm trying to create a Hyperdrive instance with a Render Postgres DB. I pas...

Emilio•4/10/25, 1:36 AM

If you were able to create the Hyperdrive config you're good to start pushing queries through it! Active vs. inactive on the dashboard just means that it has been used in the past 24 hours

Emilio•4/10/25, 1:37 AM

If we were unable to connect to your database, you would have received an error when you tried to create it

AAJR Local dev mode (i.e. `wrangler dev`) does not currently support connecting to re...

Isak•4/10/25, 9:10 AM

Hi! Is this still the case? Might face this issue when trying to connect with a neon dev branch.

IIsak Hi! Is this still the case? Might face this issue when trying to connect with a ...

yevgen•4/10/25, 10:02 AM

correct

AAJR We currently cannot support SSL handshake from local dev. It's on our roadmap, ...

UB•4/10/25, 12:05 PM

With the latest changes wrt hyperdrive and the new mysql client is there any update to this issue?

UB•4/10/25, 12:06 PM

Assuming not, since it seems to still refuse to use tls in vitest

UUB With the latest changes wrt hyperdrive and the new mysql client is there any upd...

thomasgauvin•4/10/25, 1:09 PM

For local development, you have to use a local database. You can also do local development with

npx wrangler dev --remote

npx wrangler dev --remote

, where your Workers are run in Cloudflare and that will allow you to connect to your remote database

iRazvan2745•4/10/25, 3:41 PM

Will hyperdrive ever support mysql/mariadb?

IiRazvan2745 Will hyperdrive ever support mysql/mariadb?

Isaac McFadyen•4/10/25, 3:41 PM

As of yesterday it does

iRazvan2745•4/10/25, 3:42 PM

Nice

Isaac McFadyen•4/10/25, 3:42 PM

https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/1040420029080018945/1359147325305393194

avi•4/10/25, 6:37 PM

any chance someone on the hyperdrive team can give the folks working on the cloudflare vite plugin a gentle nudge. while wrangler dev succesfully polyfills everything required for mysql2 to run, the cloudflare vite plug in doesn't. my best guess is this is due to unenv not handling safer-buffer https://github.com/unjs/unenv/issues/486

GitHub

Add npm shim for `safer-buffer` · Issue #486 · unjs/unenv

Describe the feature safer-buffer used by mysql2 mysql2 3.13.0 └─┬ iconv-lite 0.6.3 └── safer-buffer 2.1.2 it breaks compatibility with cloudflare Additional information Would you be willing to hel...

Aavi any chance someone on the hyperdrive team can give the folks working on the clou...

yevgen•4/10/25, 7:20 PM

done

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