Transgender Day of Visibility
2019-03-31
My name is Kas. I’m a Cloudflare employee and I wanted to share my story with you on International Transgender Day of Visibility....
? The Wrangler CLI: Deploying Rust with WASM on Cloudflare Workers
2019-03-28
Today, we're open sourcing and announcing wrangler, a CLI tool for building, previewing, and publishing Rust and WebAssembly Cloudflare Workers. If that sounds like some word salad to you, that's a reasonable reaction....
When I knew Cloudflare was the right place for me
2019-03-28
Let’s be honest, interviewing for a new job can be a long, difficult process. Not only is it emotionally draining to handle multiple rejections, slow responses, and prolonged processes, it can be physically exhausting to sit through hours of stale interviews. ...
BoringTun, a userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust
2019-03-27
Today we are happy to release the source code of a project we’ve been working on for the past few months. It is called BoringTun, and is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard® protocol written in Rust....
A Full CI/CD Pipeline for Workers with Travis CI
2019-03-22
In today’s post we’re going to talk about building a CI/CD pipeline for Cloudflare Worker’s using Travis CI. If you aren’t yet aware, Cloudflare Workers allow you to run Javascript in all 165 of our data centers, and they deploy globally in about 30 seconds. Learn more here. ...
The Serverlist: Benchmarks, Workers.dev, security implications of serverless, and more
2019-03-21
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Get the latest scoop on the serverless space with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
Writing an API at the Edge with Workers and Cloud Firestore
2019-03-21
We’re super stoked about bringing you Workers.dev, and we’re even more stoked at every opportunity we have to dogfood Workers. Using what we create keeps us tuned in to the developer experience, which takes a good deal of guesswork out of drawing our roadmaps....
Spectrum for UDP: DDoS protection and firewalling for unreliable protocols
2019-03-20
Today, we're announcing Spectrum for UDP. Spectrum for UDP works the same as Spectrum for TCP: Spectrum sits between your clients and your origin. Incoming connections are proxied through, whilst applying our DDoS protection and IP Firewall rules. ...
Preventing Request Loops Using CDN-Loop
2019-03-20
HTTP requests originate with a client and end at a web server that processes the request and returns a response. Such requests pass through multiple proxies before arriving at the requested resource. ...
Monsters in the Middleboxes: Introducing Two New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
2019-03-18
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them....
RFC8482 - Saying goodbye to ANY
2019-03-15
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it was special....
Unit Testing Worker Functions
2019-03-15
If you were not aware, Cloudflare Workers lets you run Javascript in all 165+ of our Data Centers. We’re delighted to see some of the creative applications of Workers. As the use cases grow in complexity, the need to smoke test your code also grows. ...
Reflecting on my first year as Head of Cloudflare Asia
2019-03-13
One year into my role as Head of Asia for Cloudflare, I wanted to reflect on what we’ve achieved, as well as where we are going next. When I started, I spoke about growing our brand recognition in Asia and optimizing our reach to clients by building up teams and channel partners. ...
Employee resource groups aren't the answer, but they're a first step
2019-03-12
Diversity and inclusion is a process. To achieve diversity and inclusion, it’s not enough to hire diverse candidates. Once hired, we must be welcomed by a safe and belonging culture, and our diverse perspectives must be honored by our coworkers....
Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web!
2019-03-12
Today, March 12th 2019, marks the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web! Cloudflare is helping to celebrate in coordination with the Web Foundation, as part of a 30 hour commemoration of the many ways ...
A Node to Workers Story
2019-03-08
Node.js allows developers to build web services with JavaScript. However, you're on your own when it comes to registering a domain, setting up DNS, managing the server processes, and setting up builds. ...
Diving into Technical SEO using Cloudflare Workers
2019-03-07
With this post we illustrate the potential applications of Cloudflare Workers in relation to search engine optimization, which is more commonly referred to as ‘SEO’ using our research and testing over the past year making Sloth....
Stopping Drupal’s SA-CORE-2019-003 Vulnerability
2019-03-05
Drupal discovered a severe vulnerability and said they would release a patch. When the patch was released we analysed and created rules to mitigate these. By analysing the patch we created WAF rules to protect Cloudflare customers running Drupal....
Building fast interpreters in Rust
2019-03-04
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In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers....
How we made Firewall Rules
2019-03-04
Recently we launched Firewall Rules, a new feature that allows you to construct expressions that perform complex matching against HTTP requests and then choose how that traffic is handled....
