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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2024-10-24
How we scaled AI Gateway to handle and store billions of requests, using Cloudflare Workers, D1, Durable Objects, and R2....
2024-10-24
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....
2024-10-23
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....
2024-10-23
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. ...
2024-10-23
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....
2024-10-22
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....
2024-10-17
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....
2024-10-15
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....
2024-10-15
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....
2024-10-10
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. ...
2024-10-09
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. ...
2024-10-09
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....
2024-10-08
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. ...
2024-10-08
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....
2024-10-07
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....
2024-10-06
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!...
2024-10-02
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. ...
2024-10-02
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....
2024-10-01
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. ...
2024-09-30
Recapping all the big announcements made during 2024’s Birthday Week....
