Impact of Cache Locality
2020-02-26
Our Gen X servers process more requests per second per core than our previous fleet. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 processor’s large L3 cache minimizes L3 cache misses, and the time-savings add up quickly....
An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU
2020-02-25
As we started looking at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, we took a long look at what is available to us in the market today and we’ve made our decision. We’re moving on from Gen 9's 48-core setup of dual socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162's to a 48-core single socket AMD EPYC 7642...
Seamless remote work with Cloudflare for Teams
2020-02-24
The novel coronavirus is actively changing how organizations work in real-time. According to Fortune, the virus has led to the “world’s largest work-from-home experiment.” As the epidemic crosses borders, employees are staying home and putting new stress on how companies manage remote work....
Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
2020-02-24
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently....
Using your devices as the key to your apps
2020-02-21
I keep a very detailed budget. I have for the last 7 years. I manually input every expense into a spreadsheet app and use a combination of sumifs functions to track spending....
Multi-SSO and Cloudflare Access: Adding LinkedIn and GitHub Teams
2020-02-20
We are excited to announce two new integrations that make it even easier for organizations to work securely with third parties. Starting today, customers can now add LinkedIn and GitHub Teams as login methods alongside their corporate SSO....
The Serverlist: Globally Distributed Websites, $16M Series A, and more
2020-02-11
Check out our twelfth 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....
Vetflare, Cloudflare's Military Veteran Employee Group Launches
2020-02-10
Veterans, people who have served in the military, are a vital element of a diverse workforce. We come in diverse shapes, sizes, colors, genders, and orientations. We bring diverse skillsets, experiences, and perspectives. ...
JAMstack at the Edge: How we built Built with Workers… on Workers
2020-01-29
I'm extremely stoked to announce Built with Workers today – it's an awesome resource for exploring what you can build with Cloudflare Workers. As Adam explained in our launch post, showcasing developers building incredible projects with tools like Workers KV ...
Announcing Built with Workers
2020-01-29
Ever since its initial release, Cloudflare Workers has given JavaScript developers a platform to enable building high-performance applications with automatic scaling....
Empowering Your Privacy
2020-01-28
Happy Data Privacy Day! At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet, and we believe data privacy is core to that mission. But we know words are cheap — even data brokers who sell your personal information will tell you that “privacy is important” to them. ...
JavaScript Libraries Are Almost Never Updated Once Installed
2020-01-27
An analysis, based on CDNJS data, of when and if JavaScript libraries are updated after being installed onto websites....
Announcing the Cloudflare Access App Launch
2020-01-16
Since launch, Cloudflare Access has helped improve how users connect to secured applications. When you protect an application with Access, users never have to connect to a private network and never have to deal with a clunky VPN client. ...
Introducing Cloudflare for Campaigns
2020-01-15
During the past year, we saw nearly 2 billion global citizens go to the polls to vote in democratic elections. There were major elections in more than 50 countries, including India, Nigeria, and the United Kingdom, as well as elections for the European Parliament. ...
A cost-effective and extensible testbed for transport protocol development
2020-01-14
At Cloudflare, we develop protocols at multiple layers of the network stack. In the past, we focused on HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and TLS 1.3. Now, we are working on QUIC and HTTP/3, which are still in IETF draft, but gaining a lot of interest....
Helping mitigate the Citrix NetScaler CVE with Cloudflare Access
2020-01-12
Cloudflare Access can help teams build a defense-in-depth mitigation to the Citrix NetScaler CVE for HTTP and SSH requests....
Accelerating UDP packet transmission for QUIC
2020-01-08
Significant work has gone into optimizing TCP, UDP hasn't received as much attention, putting QUIC at a disadvantage. Let's explore a few tricks that help mitigate this....
Prototyping optimizations with Cloudflare Workers and WebPageTest
2020-01-08
Have you ever wanted to quickly test a new performance idea, or see if the latest performance wisdom is beneficial to your site? As web performance appears to be a stochastic process, it is really important to be able to iterate quickly and review the effects of different experiments....
Introducing Cloudflare for Teams
2020-01-07
Ten years ago, when Cloudflare was created, the Internet was a place that people visited. People still talked about ‘surfing the web’ and the iPhone was less than two years old, but on July 4, 2009 large scale DDoS attacks were launched against websites in the US and South Korea....
Security on the Internet with Cloudflare for Teams
2020-01-07
Ten years ago, when Cloudflare launched, businesses and organizations purchased expensive on-premise hardware to keep their sites online first and foremost. If they wanted those sites to be faster, or safer, they needed to buy more boxes. ...