Cloudflare acquires Outerbase to expand capabilities for database and agent developer experience

Cloudflare, Inc. announced the acquisition of Outerbase, a developer database company, to dramatically enhance the developer database experience across Cloudflare Workers. With this acquisition, building database-backed applications will be more approachable — enabling more teams to build and deploy full-stack, AI-enabled applications on Cloudflare’s global network.

Databases are key to building any modern application. And, with the rapid growth of AI and AI agents, more software will be built over the next five years than in the past 20. Almost all of those applications will need a database to maintain context, store conversations, and act on data. Ensuring that those databases can be built and managed quickly, easily, and at scale by developers of all backgrounds will help more developers to build those applications on Cloudflare.

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