July 29, 2020 2:00PM
Mitigating Spectre and Other Security Threats: The Cloudflare Workers Security Model
Serverless Week
Serverless
Cloudflare Workers
DNS Security
Developers
Cloudflare is a security company, and the heart of Workers is, in my view, a security project. Running code written by third parties is always a scary proposition, and the primary concern of the Workers team is to make that safe....
July 28, 2020 2:00PM
The Migration of Legacy Applications to Workers
Serverless Week
Cloudflare Workers
JavaScript
Developers
As Cloudflare Workers, and other Serverless platforms, continue to drive down costs while making it easier for developers to stand up globally scaled applications, the migration of legacy applications is becoming increasingly common....
June 18, 2020 12:56PM
Why is there a "V" in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?
Deep Dive
Developers
UNIX
My program received a SIGSEGV signal and crashed with "Segmentation Fault" message. Where does the "V" come from? Did I read it wrong? Was there a "Segmentation *V*ault?"? Or did Linux authors make a mistake? Shouldn't the signal be named SIGSEGF?...
June 09, 2020 12:00PM
UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage
UtahFS
Encryption
Developers
Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS....
April 03, 2020 12:03PM
Trailblazing a Development Environment for Workers
Cloudflare Workers
Wrangler
Developers
Internships
Serverless
When I arrived at Cloudflare for an internship in the summer of 2018, I was taken on a tour, introduced to my mentor who took me out for coffee (shoutout to Preston), and given a quick whiteboard overview of how Cloudflare works....