Ensuring the web is for everyone
2015-08-17
This is the text of an internal email I sent at CloudFlare that we thought worth sharing more widely. I annotated it a bit with links that weren't in the original....
Dear Internet, Send Us Your Videos
2015-08-14
CloudFlare turns 5 years old this September. It's been an amazing ride since our launch. Before we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010, we'd signed up about 1,000 beta customers. It took us nine months to get those first customers. ...
Now serving the Middle East: 4 new data centers, partnerships
2015-08-10
Our last embarkation into a new geography coincided with a significant milestone: our 30th data center (and first in Africa) in Johannesburg, South Africa. And as we march past number 40, we’re proud to announce yet another. ...
DNS parser, meet Go fuzzer
2015-08-06
Here at CloudFlare we are heavy users of the github.com/miekg/dns Go DNS library and we make sure to contribute to its development as much as possible. Therefore when Dmitry Vyukov published go-fuzz and started to uncover tens of bugs in the Go standard library, our task was clear....
Up and to the Right: Forrester Research Ranks CloudFlare as a “Leader” for DDoS Services Providers
2015-08-05
Forrester Research, Inc. has released The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Services Providers, Q3 2015 report which ranks CloudFlare as a leader. How do you get placed “up and to the right”? ...
Dublin, Ireland: CloudFlare's 38th data center
2015-08-05
Top of the morning to our users and readers from Ireland! Our latest PoP in Dublin is our 38th globally, and 14th in Europe following our Bucharest deployment last week. As of yesterday, traffic from Ireland's 3.6 million Internet users will now be routed through Dublin as opposed to our London PoP....
A deep look at CVE-2015-5477 and how CloudFlare Virtual DNS customers are protected
2015-08-04
Last week ISC published a patch for a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in the BIND9 DNS server capable of causing a crash with a single packet. ...
Quick and dirty annotations for Go stack traces
2015-08-03
CloudFlare’s DNS server, RRDNS, is entirely written in Go and typically runs tens of thousands goroutines. Since goroutines are cheap and Go I/O is blocking we run one goroutine per file descriptor we listen on and queue new packets for processing....
Bucharest, Romania: CloudFlare's 37th data center
2015-07-31
Our global expansion continues in Bucharest, Romania, the 6th largest city in the European Union* following London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Paris (nearly all of which feature a CloudFlare PoP!). ...
CloudFlare headed to HostingCon 2015. Thanks for the memories and let’s create some more!
2015-07-24
The CloudFlare team is heading to HostingCon 2015 in San Diego next week. We are excited to meet colleagues from the industry, reconnect with partners, and make new friends. ...
Introducing Partner Analytics
2015-07-23
CloudFlare has over 5,000 hosting provider partners. Every day, thousands of our partners' customers take advantage of CloudFlare to help them be faster and more secure....
Célébrer le 14 Juillet avec Marseille, le 36ème point de présence de CloudFlare
2015-07-14
What better day than the 14th of July (Bastille Day) to announce the latest addition to our network in Marseille, France? Our data center in the southern city of Marseille is our 2nd in France, 12th in Europe and 36th globally....
CloudFlare Lands a New Office in Singapore
2015-07-14
After months of preparation, my teammates Algin, Marty, Adam, Jono and I touched down in Singapore and were greeted by skyscrapers, malls, Singlish, chili crab, and Marty’s special sweet and sour chicken. It immediately hit us that we were no longer in San Francisco....
Fighting Cancer: The Unexpected Benefit Of Open Sourcing Our Code
2015-07-08
Recently I was contacted by Dr. Igor Kozin from The Institute of Cancer Research in London. He asked about the optimal way to compile CloudFlare's open source fork of zlib....
Increasing Cache Hit Rates with Query String Sort
2015-07-07
At CloudFlare, we care a lot about serving requests as fast as possible. Files can be served much faster when already in CloudFlare’s cache....
The Internet is a cooperative system: CNAME to Dyn DNS outage of 6 July 2015
2015-07-06
Today, shortly after 21:00 UTC, on our internal operations chat there was a scary message from one of our senior support staff: "getting DNS resolution errors on support.cloudflare.com", at the same time as automated monitoring indicated a problem....
Blue Light Special: Ensuring fast global configuration changes
2015-07-03
CloudFlare operates a huge global network of servers that proxy our customers' web sites, operate as caches, inspect requests to ensure they are not malicious, deflect DDoS attacks and handle one of the largest authoritative DNS systems in the world. ...
Welcome UK2 Group!
2015-07-01
Today we are thrilled to welcome UK2 Group as a CloudFlare partner. Customers of UK2 Group (including its brands UK2.net, Midphase, and Westhost) are now able to access CloudFlare’s web performance and security solutions with a single click....
Setting Go variables from the outside
2015-07-01
CloudFlare's DNS server, RRDNS, is written in Go and the DNS team used to generate a file called version.go in our Makefile. version.go looked something like this....
How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
2015-06-30
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs. ...
