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Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest

2024-10-24

Cloudflare Workflows is now in open beta! Workflows allows you to build reliable, repeatable, long-lived multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state, and scale out. Read on to learn how Workflows works, how we built it on top of Durable Objects, and how you can deploy your first Workflows application....

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Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest

Durable Objects aren't just durable, they're fast: a 10x speedup for Cloudflare Queues

2024-10-24

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Learn how we built Cloudflare Queues using our own Developer Platform and how it evolved to a geographically-distributed, horizontally-scalable architecture built on Durable Objects. Our new architecture supports over 10x more throughput and over 3x lower latency compared to the previous version....

4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare's Q3 DDoS report

2024-10-23

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The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY....

Fearless SSH: short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure

2024-10-23

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Access for Infrastructure, BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One, will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature of this integration. ...

Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks

2024-10-23

DDoSDeep DiveMachine Learning

In this post we will describe how we use anomaly detection to watch for novel DDoS attacks. We’ll provide an overview of how we build models which flag unusual traffic and keep our customers safe....

Is this thing on? Using OpenBMC and ACPI power states for reliable server boot

2024-10-22

InfrastructureOpen SourceOpenBMCServersFirmware

Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet....

The story of web framework Hono, from the creator of Hono

2024-10-17

Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare Pages

Hono is a web framework that is fast, lightweight, and built using the Web Standards API. Hear the story of Hono by the creator of Hono....

Analysis of the EPYC 145% performance gain in Cloudflare Gen 12 servers

2024-10-15

AMDEPYCHardwareCloudflare Network

Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count and higher CPU frequency, as well as achieving a significant boost in performance with larger L3 cache per core....

Protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta

2024-10-15

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Uphold Zero Trust principles and protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta. Learn how this new integration allows your organization to mitigate risk in real time, make informed access decisions, and free up security resources with automation....

CJ Desai: Why I joined Cloudflare as President of Product and Engineering

2024-10-10

CareersLife at Cloudflare

I am thrilled to embark on this journey to run Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, driving forward the mission of helping build a better Internet. ...

What’s new in Cloudflare One: Digital Experience (DEX) monitoring notifications and seamless access to Cloudflare Gateway with China Express

2024-10-09

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This roundup blog post shares the latest new features and capabilities at Cloudflare. Learn more about new Digital Experience (DEX) monitoring notifications and seamless access to Cloudflare Gateway with China Express. ...

Improving platform resilience at Cloudflare through automation

2024-10-09

EdgeEngineeringServerlessDeveloper PlatformDevelopersAgile Developer ServicesGoReliabilitySpeed & Reliability

We realized that we need a way to automatically heal our platform from an operations perspective, and designed and built a workflow orchestration platform to provide these self-healing capabilities across our global network. We explore how this has helped us to reduce the impact on our customers due to operational issues, and the rich variety of similar problems it has empowered us to solve....

Cloudflare acquires Kivera to add simple, preventive cloud security to Cloudflare One

2024-10-08

Data ProtectionAcquisitionsEmail SecurityCloud Email SecuritySASEZero TrustSecurityProduct NewsCloudflare One

The acquisition and integration of Kivera broadens the scope of Cloudflare’s SASE platform beyond just apps, incorporating increased cloud security through proactive configuration management of cloud services. ...

Leveraging Kubernetes virtual machines at Cloudflare with KubeVirt

2024-10-08

KubernetesInfrastructure

The Kubernetes team runs several multi-tenant clusters across Cloudflare’s core data centers. When multi-tenant cluster isolation is too limiting for an application, we use KubeVirt. KubeVirt is a cloud-native solution that enables our developers to run virtual machines alongside containers....

Thermal design supporting Gen 12 hardware: cool, efficient and reliable

2024-10-07

HardwareEdgeCloudflare Network

Great thermal solutions play a crucial role in hardware reliability and performance. Gen 12 servers have implemented an exhaustive thermal analysis to ensure optimal operations within a wide variety of temperature conditions and use cases. By implementing new design and control features for improved power efficiency on the compute nodes we also enabled the support of powerful accelerators to serve our customers....

Enhance your website's security with Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator

2024-10-06

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Introducing Cloudflare’s free security.txt generator, empowering all users to easily create and manage their security.txt files. This feature enhances vulnerability disclosure processes, aligns with industry standards, and is integrated into the dashboard for seamless access. Strengthen your website's security today!...

Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public!

2024-10-02

JengoPatentsLegal

We’re pleased to announce that the litigation against Sable has finally concluded on terms that we believe send a strong message to patent trolls everywhere — if you bring meritless patent claims against Cloudflare, we will fight back and we will win. ...

How Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

2024-10-02

DDoSAttacksTrendsSecurity

Over the past couple of weeks, Cloudflare's DDoS protection systems have automatically and successfully mitigated multiple hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks exceeding 3 billion packets per second (Bpps). Our systems also automatically mitigated multiple attacks exceeding 3 terabits per second (Tbps), with the largest ones exceeding 3.65 Tbps. The scale of these attacks is unprecedented....

Impact of Verizon’s September 30 outage on Internet traffic

2024-10-01

Cloudflare RadarTrendsConsumer ServicesOutage

On Monday, September 30, customers on Verizon’s mobile network in multiple cities across the United States reported experiencing a loss of connectivity. HTTP request traffic data from Verizon’s mobile ASN (AS6167) showed nominal declines across impacted cities. ...