Six years ago when I joined Cloudflare the company had a capital F, about 20 employees, and a software stack that was mostly NGINX, PHP and PowerDNS (there was even a little Apache). Today, things are quite different. CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Randy Merrill The F got lowercased,
Introducing the Cloudflare Warp Ingress Controller for Kubernetes
It’s ironic that the one thing most programmers would really rather not have to spend time dealing with is... a computer. When you write code it’s written in your head, transferred to a screen with your fingers and then it has to be run. On. A. Computer. Ugh.
The Super Secret Cloudflare Master Plan, or why we acquired Neumob
We announced today that Cloudflare has acquired Neumob. Neumob’s team built exceptional technology to speed up mobile apps, reduce errors on challenging mobile networks, and increase conversions. Cloudflare will integrate the Neumob technology with our global network to give Neumob truly global reach. It’s tempting to think of
Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
It all comes down to the speed of light. It always does. The speed of light limits the latency possible between someone using the Internet and the application they are accessing.
No Scrubs: The Architecture That Made Unmetered Mitigation Possible
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, but experience has shown that there are serious pitfalls to this approach. A scrubbing server is a dedicated