Enjoy a slice of QUIC, and Rust!
2019-01-22
During last year’s Birthday Week we announced early support for QUIC, the next generation encrypted-by-default network transport protocol designed to secure and accelerate web traffic on the Internet....
Argo Tunnel + DC/OS
2019-01-21
Cloudflare is proud to partner with Mesosphere on their new Argo Tunnel offering available within their DC/OS (Data Center / Operating System) catalogue! Before diving deeper into the offering itself, we’ll first do a quick overview of the Mesophere platform, DC/OS....
The SamKnows Cloudflare Platform
2019-01-18
At SamKnows, we run lots of tests to measure internet performance. Actually, that’s an understatement. Our software is embedded on tens of millions of devices, and that number grows daily....
One-Click DNSSEC with Cloudflare Registrar
2019-01-16
When you launch a domain, you rely on the Domain Name System to direct your users to your site. However, DNS can't guarantee that visitors reach your content because basic DNS lacks authentication....
How Serverless Platforms are Changing to Enable New Applications (video)
2019-01-15
This talk was originally presented and recorded at Serverless Computing London in November 2018. If you’d like to join us in person to talk about serverless, we’ll be announcing 2019 event locations throughout the year on the docs page....
Upgrading Cloud Infrastructure Made Easier and Safer Using Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV
2019-01-10
At Timely we started a project to migrate our web applications from legacy Azure services to a modern PaaS offering. In theory it meant no code changes. We decided to start with our webhooks. ...
io_submit: The epoll alternative you've never heard about
2019-01-04
The Linux AIO is designed for, well, Asynchronous disk IO! They are not network sockets, but is it possible to use Linux AIO API with network sockets? The answer is a strong YES! ...
Sad start to the new year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2019-01-02
The calendar has barely flipped to 2019 and already we’re seeing Internet disruptions. Today, Cloudflare can quantitatively confirm that Internet access has been shut down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, information already reported by many press organisations....
Improving request debugging in Cloudflare Workers
2018-12-28
As some of you might have already noticed either from our public release notes, on cloudflareworkers.com or in your Cloudflare Workers dashboard, there was a small but important change in the look of the inspector....
Happy Pink Dot SG from the Proudflare team!
2018-12-27
In the little red dot city of Singapore, we celebrated the tenth year of an annual event called, Pink Dot SG, on 21st July 2018. This annual event started in 2009 and was formed as a group for everyone, straight and gay, who support the belief that everyone deserves the "freedom to love"....
Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019
2018-12-25
We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?...
Improving HTML Time to First Byte
2018-12-24
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Fixing slow Time To First Byte by edge-caching HTML with Cloudflare Workers and automatically purging the cache when content changes....
Mejoramos el tiempo hasta el primer byte de HTML
2018-12-24
El tiempo hasta el primer byte (TTFB) de un sitio web es el tiempo desde que el usuario comienza a navegar hasta que el código HTML de la página que ha solicitado empieza a llegar....
The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition
2018-12-24
A year ago, we unveiled the true mission of Cloudflare’s scale: to find the best mince pie available to the public. Discover what makes a mince pie great and how to learn this at Cloudflare’s scale....
Athenian Project Turns One: Are Election Websites Safer?
2018-12-21
One year ago, Cloudflare launched the Athenian Project to provide free Enterprise-level service to election and voter registration websites run by state and local governments in the United States. ...
Encrypting DNS end-to-end
2018-12-21
Over the past few months, we have been running a pilot with Facebook to test the feasibility of securing the connection between 1.1.1.1 and Facebook’s authoritative name servers. ...
Firewall Rules - Priority and Ordering
2018-12-21
Firewall Rules are one of the best security features we released this year, and have been an overwhelming success. Customers have been using Firewall Rules to solve interesting security related use cases....
Ten new data centers: Cloudflare expands global network to 165 cities
2018-12-20
Cloudflare is excited to announce the addition of ten new data centers across the United States, Bahrain, Russia, Vietnam, Pakistan and France (Reunion). ...
Banking-Grade Credential Stuffing: The Futility of Partial Password Validation
2018-12-20
Recently when logging into one of my credit card providers, I was greeted by a familiar screen. After entering in my username, the service asked me to supply 3 random characters from my password to validate ownership of my account....
Cloudworker - A local Cloudflare Worker Runner
2018-12-19
At Dollar Shave Club, we continuously look for ways to improve how we build and ship code. Improving the time it takes for engineers to ship code is key. Providing engineers with a development environment that closely mirrors production really helps....