Third Time’s a Charm (A brief history of a gay marriage)06/28/2019ProudflareLGBTQIA+Life at CloudflareEmployee Resource GroupsHappy Pride from Proudflare, Cloudflare’s LGBTQIA+ employee resource group. We wanted to share some stories from our members this month which highlight both the struggles behind the LGBTQIA+ rights movement and its successes. This first story is from Lesley. ...Lesley Lurie
The deep-dive into how Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Monday06/26/2019RPKIBGPDeep DivePost MortemOn Monday we wrote about a painful Internet wide route leak. We wrote that this should never have happened because Verizon should never have forwarded those routes to the rest of the Internet. Today we will dive into the archived routing data and analyze it....Martin J Levy
Deeper Connection with the Local Tech Community in India06/25/2019Cloudflare MeetupsMeetUpEventsIndiaServerlessCloudflare WorkersDevelopersDeveloper PlatformOn June 6th 2019, Cloudflare hosted the first ever customer event in a beautiful and green district of Bangalore, India. More than 60 people, including executives, developers, engineers, and even university students, have attended the half day forum....Tingting (Teresa) Huang
Get Cloudflare insights in your preferred analytics provider06/25/2019AnalyticsProduct NewsInsightsPartnersToday we’re excited to announce our partnerships with Chronicle Security, Datadog, Elastic, Looker, Splunk, and Sumo Logic to make it easy for our customers to analyze Cloudflare logs and metrics using their analytics provider of choice....Simon Steiner
How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today06/24/2019BGPToday at 10:30UTC, the Internet had a small heart attack. A small company in Northern Pennsylvania became a preferred path of many Internet routes through Verizon (AS701), a major Internet transit provider. ...Tom Strickx
Join Cloudflare & Moz at our next meetup, Serverless in Seattle!06/24/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers KVJavaScriptProgrammingDevelopersCloudflare MeetupsMeetUpEventsDeveloper PlatformCloudflare is organizing a meetup in Seattle on Tuesday, June 25th and we hope you can join. We’ll be bringing together members of the developers community and Cloudflare users for an evening of discussion about serverless compute and the infinite number of use cases for deploying code at the edge. ...Giuliana DeAngelis
Introducing time.cloudflare.com06/21/2019Crypto WeekCryptographyProduct NewsSecurityResearchCloudflare has always been a leader in deploying secure versions of insecure Internet protocols and making them available for free for anyone to use. In 2014, we launched one of the world’s first free, secure HTTPS service (Universal SSL) to go along with our existing free HTTP plan. ...Aanchal Malhotra
The Quantum Menace06/20/2019Crypto WeekResearchCryptographySecurityProduct NewsDeep DivePost-QuantumThe impact of quantum computing on cryptography conducts research and development towards a Post-Quantum era....Armando Faz-Hernández
Towards Post-Quantum Cryptography in TLS06/20/2019Crypto WeekCryptographySecurityProduct NewsTLSDeep DiveIn anticipation of wide-spread quantum computing, the transition from classical public-key cryptography primitives to post-quantum (PQ) alternatives has started....Kris Kwiatkowski
Introducing CIRCL: An Advanced Cryptographic Library06/20/2019Crypto WeekCryptographyProduct NewsSecurityElliptic CurvesTLSResearchToday we are proud to release the source code of a cryptographic library we’ve been working on: a collection of cryptographic primitives written in Go, called CIRCL. ...Kris KwiatkowskiArmando Faz-Hernández
Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway06/19/2019Crypto WeekCryptographyIPFSEthereumSecurityResearchToday, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any software on your computer....Jonathan Hoyland
Continuing to Improve our IPFS Gateway06/19/2019Crypto WeekCryptographyIPFS1.1.1.1Product NewsWhen we launched our InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) gateway last year we were blown away by the positive reception. ...Brendan McMillion
Securing Certificate Issuance using Multipath Domain Control Validation06/18/2019Crypto WeekCryptographyDNSBGPTLSCFSSLHTTPSSecuritySpeed & ReliabilityTrust on the Internet is underpinned by the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI grants servers the ability to securely serve websites by issuing digital certificates, providing the foundation for encrypted and authentic communication. ...Dina KozlovGabbi Fisher
League of Entropy: Not All Heroes Wear Capes06/17/2019Crypto WeekSecurityCryptographyEntropyLavaRandEverything from cryptography to big money lottery to quantum mechanics requires some form of randomness. But what exactly does it mean for a number to be randomly generated and where does the randomness come from?...Dina Kozlov
Inside the Entropy06/17/2019Crypto WeekSecurityCryptographyEntropyProgrammingGenerating random outcomes is an essential part of everyday life; from lottery drawings and constructing competitions, to performing deep cryptographic computations. ...Alex Davidson
Welcome to Crypto Week 201906/16/2019Crypto WeekSecurityProduct NewsBGPCryptographyRPKIDNSHTTPSThe Internet is an extraordinarily complex and evolving ecosystem. Its constituent protocols range from the ancient and archaic (hello FTP) to the modern and sleek (meet WireGuard), with a fair bit of everything in between. ...Nick Sullivan
Security Compliance at Cloudflare06/16/2019SecurityComplianceCloudflare believes trust is fundamental to helping build a better Internet. One way Cloudflare is helping our customers earn their users’ trust is through industry standard security compliance certifications and regulations. ...Rebecca Rogers
A free Argo Tunnel for your next project06/15/2019Product NewsSecurityDevelopersCloudflare TunnelArgo Tunnel lets you expose a server to the Internet without opening any ports. The service runs a lightweight process on your server that creates outbound tunnels to the Cloudflare network. ...Sam Rhea
Project Galileo: the view from the front lines06/14/2019Project GalileoLegalFreedom of SpeechGrowing up in the age of technology has made it too easy for me to take the presence of the Internet for granted. It’s hard to imagine not being able to go online and connect with anyone in the world....Erin Walk
Protecting Project Galileo websites from HTTP attacks06/13/2019Project GalileoFirewallDDoSAttacksSecuritySpeed & ReliabilityYesterday, we celebrated the fifth anniversary of Project Galileo. More than 550 websites are part of this program, and they have something in common: each and every one of them has been subject to attacks in the last month....Maxime Guerreiro
Project Galileo: Lessons from 5 years of protecting the most vulnerable online06/12/2019Project GalileoLegalFreedom of SpeechToday is the 5th anniversary of Cloudflare's Project Galileo. Through the Project, Cloudflare protects—at no cost—nearly 600 organizations around the world engaged in some of the most politically and artistically important work online....Matthew Prince
Making progress in Cloudflare's EMEA operations, and looking ahead to a bright future06/11/2019Life at CloudflareEuropeMiddle EastAfricaCloudflare’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) have seen great progress over the last year and the future looks even brighter. I joined as Head of EMEA Sales, taking responsibility for our customer-facing activity across the region, just over a year ago. ...Andy Lockhart
Why I’m helping Cloudflare build its partnerships worldwide06/06/2019PartnersCloudflare has always had an audacious mission: to help build a better Internet. From its inception, the company realized that a mission this big couldn’t be taken on alone. ...Matthew Harrell
Cloudflare Partners: A New Program with New Partners06/06/2019PartnersLoad BalancingAnycastMany overlook a critical portion of the language in Cloudflare’s mission: “to help build a better Internet.” From the beginning, we knew a mission this bold, an undertaking of this magnitude, couldn’t be done alone....Dan Hollinger
Announcing the New Cloudflare Partner Platform06/06/2019PartnersAPIDevelopersWhen I first started at Cloudflare over two years ago, one of the first things I was tasked with was to help evolve our partner platform to support the changes in our service and the expanding needs of our partners and customers. ...Garrett Galow
Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers06/05/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersJavaScriptDevelopersDeveloper PlatformExperimentation is an important ingredient in driving business growth: whether you’re iterating on a product or testing new messaging, there’s no substitute for the data and insights gathered from conducting rigorous experiments in the wild. ...Guest AuthorRemy Guercio
Technology's Promise - Highlights from DEF CON China 1.006/05/2019EventsChinaSecurityThemed "Technology's Promise", DEF CON China 1.0 kicked off on 5/30 in Beijing. The Cloudflare team from Beijing, Singapore and San Francisco attended to connect with local security communities....Claire Tsai
MultiCloud... flare06/02/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersLoad BalancingCloudflare AccessSpeed & ReliabilityCloudflare TunnelDevelopersDeveloper PlatformIf you want to start an intense conversation in the halls of Cloudflare, try describing us as a "CDN". CDNs don't generally provide you with Load Balancing, they don't allow you to deploy Serverless Applications, and they certainly don't get installed onto your phone. ...Zack Bloom
Just write code: improving developer experience for Cloudflare Workers06/02/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersJavaScriptProduct NewsDevelopersDeveloper PlatformWe’re excited to announce that starting today, Cloudflare Workers® gets a CLI, new and improved docs, multiple scripts for everyone, the ability to run applications on workers.dev without bringing your own domain, and a free tier to make experimentation easier than ever....Rita Kozlov
Join the Cloudflare India Forum in Bangalore on 6 June 2019!05/31/2019Cloudflare MeetupsAsiaIndiaPlease join us for an exclusive gathering to discover the latest in cloud solutions for Internet Security and Performance....Tingting (Teresa) Huang
Cloudflare Repositories FTW05/30/2019LinuxKali Linux turned six years old this year! In this time, Kali has established itself as the de-facto standard open source penetration testing platform....Guest Author
Join Cloudflare & PicsArt at our meetup in Yerevan!05/29/2019EventsCloudflare MeetupsMeetUpThe Cloudflare and PicsArt Armenia teams invite you to join us in a meet-up to learn about the newest in the Internet industry....Albina Sultangulova
Stopping SharePoint’s CVE-2019-060405/28/2019WAFVulnerabilitiesSecurityOn Saturday, 11th May 2019, we got the news of a critical web vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild by advanced persistent threats (APTs), affecting Microsoft’s SharePoint server (versions 2010 through 2019)....Georgie Yoxall
The Serverlist: Connecting the Serverless Ecosystem05/24/2019Cloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers KVJavaScriptDevelopersEventsThe Serverlist NewsletterProduct NewsServerlessDeveloper PlatformCheck out our 5th edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....Connor PeshekAndrew Fitch
NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance05/22/2019Speed WeekSpeed & ReliabilityNGINXHTTP2My team: the Cloudflare PROTOCOLS team is responsible for termination of HTTP traffic at the edge of the Cloudflare network. We deal with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2....Nick Jones
Building a To-Do List with Workers and KV05/21/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers KVJavaScriptProgrammingDevelopersDeveloper PlatformIn this tutorial, we’ll build a todo list application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a twist: all the data should be stored inside of the newly-launched Workers KV, and the application itself should be served directly from Cloudflare’s edge network, using Cloudflare Workers....Kristian Freeman
Workers KV — Cloudflare's distributed database05/21/2019ServerlessCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers KVJavaScriptProduct NewsProgrammingDevelopersDeveloper PlatformToday, we’re excited to announce Workers KV is entering general availability and is ready for production use!...Ashcon Partovi
One night in Beijing05/20/2019ChinaEventsAs the old saying goes, good things come in pairs, 好事成双! The month of May marks a double celebration in China for our customers, partners and Cloudflare....Chris Chua
One more thing... new Speed Page05/20/2019Speed WeekSpeed & ReliabilityHTTP2Product NewsDashboardWith the Speed Page redesign, we are emphasizing the performance benefits of using Cloudflare and the additional improvements possible from our features....Andrew Galloni
EU election season and securing online democracy05/20/2019LegalEuropeElection SecurityIt’s election season in Europe, as European Parliament seats are contested across the European Union by national political parties. With approximately 400 million people eligible to vote, this is one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world. ...Caroline Greer