San Francisco, CA
A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
01/19/2011
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......
01/01/2011
We were just issued a new IP address range which we will begin to deploy soon. The new range is: 173.245.48.0/20 (173.245.48.0 - 173.245.63.255)...
12/17/2010
We generate a lot of logs. To give you some sense, across the CloudFlare network every minute we write a half a Gigabyte of just log data. Collecting, reducing, sorting, and displaying that data back to you is one of the biggest challenges of running a service like CloudFlare....
12/06/2010
As a fellow startup, it's been really painful to watch the challenges Tumblr has gone though over the last 24 hours. With any sufficiently complex system, it is inevitable that unexpected problems will arise. ...
10/10/2010
ICloudflare passed a big milestone yesterday: over the last 30 days we've served more than 1 billion requests. The Cloudflare network is architected to handle many, many times this level traffic, but it's still pretty amazing to realize the extent of what already powering....
10/04/2010
When Michelle, Lee, and I started working on Cloudflare back in the Winter of 2009 the plan was always to launch at TechCrunch. ...
09/02/2010
If you're a big enterprise and you want performance and security you buy an expensive piece of hardware and contract with a content delivery network or highly connected data center. For the vast majority of websites online, this simply isn't an option....
03/01/2010
When Michelle, Lee and I started working on the business plan that turned into Cloudflare one of the first questions was what we should call it? We needed a placeholder so we initially chose "Project WebWall." ...
04/28/2009
We're excited to announce that we just got word that Cloudflare won the 2009 Harvard Business Plan competition. We're extremely excited and flattered by the recognition. The competition was a terrific experience for Michelle and me....
