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John Roberts

John Roberts

Everybody gets WebSockets

Two summers ago, with a seemed-big-at-the-time network of 28 datacenters, not long after introducing Medellin, CloudFlare introduced support for WebSockets, initially for our Enterprise customers.

Ask Me Anything About HTTP/2

We're big fans of HTTP/2 at CloudFlare. Our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built.

App: Infolinks Earns You Money With In-Text Ads

At CloudFlare, we're interested in making running a website easier. That's a broad definition, on purpose, going far beyond security and performance. If your goal is making money from your website, we want to make that easier, too.

Never Deal With DNS Propagation Again

At CloudFlare, we think a lot about the Domain Name Service -- better known as DNS, the Internet's address book. CloudFlare uses DNS to bring performance and security to our customers.

App: Observe Earth Hour on Your Website

This app started with a casual request on Tuesday, March 27th, in a public CloudFlare support thread. "I think it would be great if CloudFlare had an app to aid in Earth Hour this upcoming Saturday, March 31 @ 8:30 PM. It's not too late to join in on the effort!"

App: Goodbye Apture, Hello Highlight

Since its June introduction as a CloudFlare App, Apture's contextual search service has been popular. Thousands of CloudFlare customers installed the app. In November, we heard that Apture was shutting down their service, as part of their acquisition by Google.

Global Thanks

It's almost time at CloudFlare headquarters, in San Francisco, California, USA, to celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday brings together family and friends to enjoy a meal and remember the people and events for which we are grateful.

App: Dome9 Automates Secure Access to Your Servers

CloudFlare protects your website, scrubbing your web traffic from unwanted visitors and attacks. But not all traffic to a server is web traffic. For instance, SSH, FTP and other administrative ports may be needed at different times.

App: Blitz.io Makes Performance and Load Testing Easy

Blitz.io is a self service load and performance testing platform. It's a new offering from Mu Dynamics, leaders in the application testing space, and we're thrilled to make Blitz instantly available to CloudFlare customers right now as a CloudFlare App.