Cloudflare Details Unified Data Platform Where Billing Workloads Account for 53% of Queries
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Cloudflare's Town Lake unifies data across Postgres, ClickHouse, and Iceberg via Apache Trino and R2 storage, with billing workloads representing 53% of its 91,760 queries from 324 employees. The platform enforces a default-closed governance model using Skimmer for automated PII detection, while the Skipper AI agent translates natural language into validated queries, with accuracy improved by simplifying prompts and incorporating SQL lineage. Industry observers note that placing an AI agent atop such a unified analytics platform introduces a control problem for infrastructure teams.