Some interesting changes related to timekeeping in the upcoming Go 1.3 release inspired us take a closer look at how Go programs keep time with the help of the Linux kernel. Timekeeping is a complex topic and determining the current time isn’t as simple as it might seem ...
When we need to transfer data from one program to another program, either within a machine or from one data center to another some form of serialization is needed. Serialization converts data stored in memory into a form that can be sent across a network or between processes and then ...
On January 27, the Department of Justice and the Director of National Intelligence announced a change in rules governing the disclosure of National Security Orders, affording slightly more latitude in how companies could report the number of National Security Orders which they had received. Within several hours, CloudFlare presented its ...
We're excited to announce that CloudFlare has acquired the anti-malware firm StopTheHacker. I wanted to share a little bit about the rationale behind the acquisition and what to expect from the two teamed up companies going forward.
CloudFlare's mission is to build a better Internet. One of the ...
On Monday, February 10th, CloudFlare experienced a large DDoS attack, with nearly 400Gbps of NTP attack traffic hitting our network. We were not the only networks getting hit by massive NTP attacks. Around the same time, OVH reported a similarly sized attack. Since the attack we’ve heard from a ...
Back in June 2012 CloudFlare started a beta rollout of Google's then new SPDY protocol and we took a detailed look at how SPDY makes web sites faster.
Since then we've watched carefully as SPDY has evolved through different versions and have been keeping an eye on a ...
At CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve the security of our customers’ websites. One of the features we provide is the ability to serve their website encrypted over SSL/TLS. Today we are announcing a new feature to help make encryption on the web safer and more ...
On Monday we mitigated a large DDoS that targeted one of our customers. The attack peaked just shy of 400Gbps. We've seen a handful of other attacks at this scale, but this is the largest attack we've seen that uses NTP amplification. This style of attacks has grown ...
Today on The Day We Fight Back, companies are coming together to protest the NSA’s mass surveillance programs. CloudFlare is proud to be one of those companies. We are taking a stand and proclaiming that “we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our ...
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At CloudFlare, we're fiercely committed to an open internet. That's why we’re announcing a new app that lets you easily add to your website a banner from The Day We ...