ROFL with a LOL: rewriting an NGINX module in Rust
Cloudflare engineers rewrote cf-html, an old NGINX module, in Rust. This project revealed much about NGINX, potentially leading to its full replacement in Cloudflare's infrastructure.
Sam Howson
New .uk domains now supported
On the 10th of June, the UK domain registry Nominet made available second-level domain namespace to the public, allowing anyone to register a domain ending with simply .uk
CloudFlare DNS is simple, fast and flexible
Over the past few years, the CloudFlare blog has covered a great range of different topics, drilling down into the technology we use to both protect websites from attack, and optimise them so that they load faster for visitors.
