How Replicated Developers Develop Remotely
2020-03-10
Replicated is a 5-year old infrastructure software company with a focus on enabling a new model of enterprise software delivery that we call Kubernetes Off-The-Shelf (KOTS) Software....
How to Build a Highly Productive Remote Team (or Team of Contractors) with Cloudflare for Teams
2020-03-09
Much of IT has been built on two outdated assumptions. First, employees all sit in the same building or branch offices. Second, that those employees will work full-time at the same company for years....
Cloudflare for Teams Free for Small Businesses During Coronavirus Emergency
2020-03-09
Beginning today, we are making our Cloudflare for Teams products free to small businesses around the world. Teams enables remote workers to operate securely and easily. We will continue this policy for at least the next 6 months....
Why the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote in the U.S. is Important to Celebrate on International Women’s Day
2020-03-07
Yellow roses were worn by supporters of women's right to vote during the Women's Suffrage Movement in the early 20th century in the United States. The yellow rose became the symbol of victory in the movement and this week, across all of our offices, we celebrate the achievements of women....
How Cloudflare keeps employees productive from any location
2020-03-06
Cloudflare employs more than 1,200 people in 13 different offices and maintains a network that operates in 200 cities. To do that, we used to suffer through a traditional corporate VPN that backhauled traffic through a physical VPN appliance....
International Women’s Day 2020: Building a Modern Security Team
2020-03-06
When we started at Cloudflare in the summer of 2018, we joined a small security team intent on helping it grow quickly. Cloudflare was already a successful “unicorn” startup and its profile was changing fast, providing cyber security protection for millions of Internet-facing properties....
The History of the URL
2020-03-05
On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix. ...
Pwned Passwords Padding (ft. Lava Lamps and Workers)
2020-03-04
Starting today, we are offering a new security advancement in the Pwned Passwords API - API clients can receive responses padded with random data....
Why I’m Excited to Join Cloudflare as its First CIO
2020-03-04
I am delighted to share that I have joined Cloudflare as its first Chief Information Officer to help scale the company in this new phase of its business....
RPKI and the RTR protocol
2020-03-03
Today’s Internet requires stronger protection within its core routing system and as we have already said: it's high time to stop BGP route leaks and hijacks by deploying operationally-excellent RPKI!...
Addressing the Web’s Client-Side Security Challenge
2020-03-03
Modern web architecture relies heavily on JavaScript and enabling third-party code to make client-side network requests. These innovations are built on client-heavy frameworks such as Angular, Ember, React, and Backbone that leverage the processing power of the browser...
When Bloom filters don't bloom
2020-03-02
Last month finally I had an opportunity to use Bloom filters. I became fascinated with the promise of this data structure, but I quickly realized it had some drawbacks. This blog post is the tale of my brief love affair with Bloom filters....
Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
2020-03-01
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network. ...
Going Beyond Black History Month
2020-02-29
Around this time of year in the United States, African-Americans are often tasked with explaining why we spend 28 (or in the case of leap year 29) days celebrating the contributions our ancestors made to this country....
Securing Memory at EPYC Scale
2020-02-28
At Cloudflare, we encrypt data both in transit (on the network) and at rest (on the disk). Both practices address some of the most common vectors used to exfiltrate information and these measures serve to protect sensitive data from attackers but, what about data currently in use?...
Gen X Performance Tuning
2020-02-27
We have partnered with AMD to get the best performance out of this processor and today, we are highlighting our tuning efforts that led to an additional 6% performance. Thermal design power (TDP) and dynamic power, amongst others, play a critical role when tuning a system. ...
Introducing Secrets and Environment Variables to Cloudflare Workers
2020-02-26
The Workers team here at Cloudflare has been hard at work shipping a bunch of new features in the last year and we’ve seen some amazing things built with the tools we’ve provided....
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 looked at production ready systems to power our Gen X solution, 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....