Cloudflare and Google Offer App Developers $100,000 in Cloud Platform Credits
09/19/2017
When Cloudflare started, our company needed two things: an initial group of users, and the finances to fund our development....
Truth Lives in the Open: Lessons from Wikipedia
09/15/2017
Victoria Coleman, CTO, Wikimedia Foundation Moderator: Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder & COO, Cloudflare...
Will Data Destroy Democracy?
09/15/2017
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and Darren Bolding, CTO, Cambridge Analytica Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare ...
As Seen on TV
09/14/2017
Chris Cantwell, Co-Creator and Show Runner, Halt & Catch Fire Moderator: John Graham-Cumming, CTO, Cloudflare...
Private Companies, Public Squares
09/14/2017
Daphne Keller, Director, Stanford Center for Internet & Society, and Lee Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare...
Betting on Blockchain
09/14/2017
Juan Benet, Founder, Protocol Labs, and Jill Carlson, GM, Tezos Foundation Moderator: Jen Taylor, Head of Product, Cloudflare...
The New Breed of Patent Trolls
09/14/2017
Lee Cheng, President & Co-CLO, Symmetry IP LLC, and Vera Ranieri, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare...
If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Tales from the Early Internet
09/14/2017
Paul Mockapetris, Inventor, DNS, and David Conrad, CTO, ICANN Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare...
Making the World Better by Breaking Things
09/14/2017
Ben Sadeghipour, Technical Account Manager, HackerOne, and Katie Moussouris, Founder & CEO, Luta Security...
A Cloud Without Handcuffs
09/14/2017
Brandon Philips, Co-Founder & CTO, CoreOS, and Joe Beda, CTO, Heptio, & Co-Founder, Kubernetes ...
Making Mobile Faster than Fixed Line
09/14/2017
Cole Crawford, Founder & CEO, Vapor IO, and Chaitali Sengupta, Consultant, Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies...
Disruptive Cryptography: Post-Quantum & Machine Learning With Encrypted Data
09/14/2017
Shay Gueron, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Israel, and Raluca Ada Popa, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley ...
What Will AI Mean for Everyday Life?
09/14/2017
Willie Tejada, Chief Developer Advocate, IBM and Anthony Goldbloom, CEO, Kaggle...
The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
09/14/2017
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
Understanding the prevalence of web traffic interception
09/12/2017
This post summarizes how prevalent encrypted web traffic interception is and how it negatively affects online security according to a study published at NDSS 2017 authored by several researchers including the author of this post and Nick Sullivan of Cloudflare. ...
Delivering Dot
09/10/2017
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator). F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a shared Anycast. This document reviews how F-Root has performed since that date in March 2017. The DNS root servers are an important utility provided to all clients on the Internet for free - all F root instances includin...
Hurricane Irma
09/09/2017
Yesterday, we described how Hurricane Irma impacted several Caribbean islands, with the damage including a significant disruption to Internet access....
The Story of Two Outages
09/07/2017
Over the last two days, Cloudflare observed two events that had effects on global Internet traffic levels. Cloudflare handles approximately 10% of all Internet requests, so we have significant visibility into traffic from countries and networks across the world....
SIDH in Go for quantum-resistant TLS 1.3
09/01/2017
Most of today's cryptography is designed to be secure against an adversary with enormous amounts of computational power. This means estimating how much work certain computations require, and choosing cryptographic parameters based on our best estimates....
Portland (Oregon): Cloudflare's 117th Data Center!
09/01/2017
Even as the luckiest amongst us across the US West Coast dashed off to Oregon to be closer to the solar eclipse path of totality, Cloudflare engineers were busy turning up our newest data center in Portland....
One way to help Hurricane Harvey victims
09/01/2017
Hurricane Harvey hit Texas last Friday as a Category 4 storm. Although Harvey's category was quickly downgraded, the storm lingered around for days, bringing 50 inches of rain to the greater Houston area....
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
08/28/2017
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. ...
App Highlight: Trebble
08/25/2017
Earlier this month, Armel Beaudry Kembe spoke at the Ottawa JS meetup to introduce his experience in developing his app Trebble.fm on the new Cloudflare App platform....
Going Global - a Localization Case Study at Cloudflare
08/23/2017
Today Cloudflare serves nearly 10% of all global internet requests and more than 80% of our customers are based outside of the United States. ...
Advancing Privacy Protection with the GDPR
08/21/2017
The road towards implementation of the new European GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation) has been a long one, even though public awareness of its impact, especially outside of Europe, is only now really starting to take hold. ...
App Highlight: Hardenize
08/18/2017
Hardenize is a comprehensive security tool that continuously monitors the security and configuration of your domain name, email, and website....
Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
08/18/2017
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?...
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
08/16/2017
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again....
Power outage hits the island of Taiwan. Here’s what we learned.
08/16/2017
At approximately 4:50pm local time (8:50am UTC) August 15, a major unexpected power outage hit the island of Taiwan with a significant amount of its power generation facilities going down....
Recap: How to make a Cloudflare App workshop in Austin
08/11/2017
Cloudflare hosted a developer preview workshop in Austin for Cloudflare Apps, taught by Zack Bloom, tech lead of Cloudflare Apps....
Moving Forward with Path Forward
08/10/2017
In February, I blogged about our first rotation of Path Forward returnships and the awesome people we’ve hired as a result of the program....
