EU Terrorist Content Online proposal – political haste and unintended consequences
2018-12-04
In September, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal to address the removal of terrorist content online. ...
How well do you know website performance?
2018-12-04
How quickly did this blog post load? Did you happen to notice? Most website visitors do notice that sort of thing, even if they don't realize it consciously. In fact, virtually all visitors have strong opinions about how quickly a website should load....
Cloudflare Apps Fund 2.0
2018-11-30
Today we are launching the second iteration of the Cloudflare App Developer Fund. This is an investment fund started in partnership with Venrock, Pelion Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates....
Logs from the Edge
2018-11-29
With Cloudflare Workers, it is possible to send traffic logs to arbitrary locations. In this post we are going to discuss an example Worker implementation on how to achieve this. So if you are building or maintaining your own traffic logging/analytics environment, read on....
Know your SCM_RIGHTS
2018-11-29
As TLS 1.3 was ratified earlier this year, I was recollecting how we got started with it here at Cloudflare. We made the decision to be early adopters of TLS 1.3 a little over two years ago. It was a very important decision, and we took it very seriously....
L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations
2018-11-28
Efficient packet dropping is a key part of Cloudflare’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations. In this post, we introduce a new tool in our packet dropping arsenal: L4Drop....
Working out Backend Knots and Building Routers (Austin Real World Serverless Video Recap)
2018-11-25
Our Austin Real World Serverless event (in partnership with the ATX Serverless User Group Meetup) included two talks about Serverless technology featuring Victoria Bernard and Preston Pham from Cloudflare. ...
My Second Cloudflare Company Retreat
2018-11-24
Last week, 760 humans of Singapore, London, Beijing, Sydney, Nairobi, Austin, New York, Miami, Washington DC, Warsaw, Munich, Brussels, and Champaign reunited with their San Francisco counterparts for our 9th annual Cloudflare company retreat in the Bay Area....
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
2018-11-23
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time....
Serverless Progressive Web Apps using React with Cloudflare Workers
2018-11-23
The story of how I learned that you can build Progressive Web Apps on the Cloudflare’s Edge....
Fast Google Fonts with Cloudflare Workers
2018-11-22
Code walkthrough on using Cloudflare workers to improve the performance of sites using Google Fonts. The improvements can be quite dramatic and the sample provides a real-world use case of doing streaming HTML modification in a Cloudflare Worker....
My time as an intern (thus far)
2018-11-21
Sit down by the fire, and let me regale you with a tale of my time at Cloudflare as an intern....
Cloudflare's Response to a Privacy Framework
2018-11-17
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better internet, and privacy has to be at the heart of that effort. That’s why we submitted comments last week on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s request for comment on its proposed approach to advance consumer privacy. ...
Introducing Apps with Workers
2018-11-16
Since its inception, Cloudflare Apps has made it possible for website owners to install a tool or a service directly onto a domain they have that lives on the Cloudflare network....
Announcing SSH Access through Cloudflare
2018-11-16
You can now place applications that require SSH connections, like your source control repository, behind Cloudflare Access. We’re excited to release that same feature so that your team can also destroy your own VPN....
Bandwidth Alliance Partners - Exciting Choices
2018-11-15
We are tremendously excited about the value our Bandwidth Alliance partner ecosystem adds to our customers. We’re on a mission to help make the internet a better place; and ensuring everyone can access cloud resources at zero-egress rates supports that mission in many ways. ...
Expanding the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks
2018-11-15
We are proud to announce the following cloud providers and hosting companies have joined the Bandwidth Alliance in committing to zero data transfer fees for mutual customers. ...
How a Nigerian ISP Accidentally Knocked Google Offline
2018-11-15
Last Monday evening — 12 November 2018 — Google and a number of other services experienced a 74 minute outage. Incidents like this only serve to demonstrate just how much frailty is involved in how packets get from one point on the Internet to another....
Real URLs for AMP Cached Content Using Cloudflare Workers
2018-11-13
As Cloudflare Workers matures, we continue to push ourselves to develop and deploy important features using them. Today, we’re excited to announce support for HTTP signed exchanges, generated by Cloudflare Workers!...
The rise of multivector DDoS attacks
2018-11-12
It's been a while since we last wrote about Layer 3/4 DDoS attacks on this blog. This is a good news - we've been quietly handling the daily onslaught of DDoS attacks. Since our last write-up, a handful of interesting L3/4 attacks have happened. Let's review them....