Broken packets: IP fragmentation is flawed
August 18, 2017
As opposed to the public telephone network, the internet has a Packet Switched design. But just how big can these packets be?...
Recap: How to make a Cloudflare App workshop in Austin
August 11, 2017
Cloudflare hosted a developer preview workshop in Austin for Cloudflare Apps, taught by Zack Bloom, tech lead of Cloudflare Apps....
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS
August 02, 2017
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences...
Net Neutrality Day: Cloudflare + Fight for the Future
July 25, 2017
For Net Neutrality Day on July 12, Fight for the Future launched a Cloudflare App installable for websites all over the world. Sites with it installed saw as many as 178M page views prompting the users to write to their local congressional representative on the importance of Net Neutrality....
Getting started with Cloudflare Apps
July 12, 2017
We recently launched our new Cloudflare Apps platform, and love to see the community it is building. In an effort to help people who run web services such as websites, APIs and more, we would like to help make your web services faster, safer and more reliable....
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June 27, 2017
Announcing the Cloudflare Apps Platform and Developer Fund
When we started Cloudflare we had no idea if anyone would validate our core idea. Our idea was that everyone should have the ability to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. Six years later, it's incredible how far that core idea has t...
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April 01, 2017
Cloudflare Apps: Develop Features for Everyone
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet for everyone, but sometimes sites often lack the accessibility features critical to allowing all Internet users to enjoy their content and perspective....
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December 13, 2016
Cloudflare Acquires Eager to Reimagine Apps
In 2011 we launched the Cloudflare Apps platform in an article that described Cloudflare as “not ... the sexiest business in the world.” Sexy or not, Cloudflare has since grown from the 3.5 billion pageviews a month we were doing then to over 1.3 trillion per month today. ...
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December 13, 2016
We Were Acquired by Cloudflare, Here’s What’s Next
Like most of you, I first heard of Cloudflare via this blog. I read about HTTP/2, Railgun, the Hundredth Data Center, and Keyless SSL — but I never thought I would work here. I, along with my co-founder Adam, and our friends and coworkers were hard at work building something very...
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December 04, 2015
Tools for debugging, testing and using HTTP/2
With CloudFlare's release of HTTP/2 for all our customers the web suddenly has a lot of HTTP/2 connections. To get the most out of HTTP/2 you'll want to be using an up to date web browser (all the major browsers support HTTP/2)....
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June 18, 2015
Go has a debugger—and it's awesome!
Something that often, uh... bugs Go developers is the lack of a proper debugger. Builds are ridiculously fast and easy, but sometimes it would be nice to just set a breakpoint and step through that endless if chain or print a bunch of values without recompiling ten times....
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July 02, 2014
Making code better with reviews
In the past we've written about how CloudFlare isn't afraid to rip out and replace chunks of code that have proved to be hard to maintain or have simply reach end of life. ...
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May 21, 2014
BPF - the forgotten bytecode
Every once in a while I run into an obscure computer technology that is a hidden gem, which over the years has become mostly forgotten. This is exactly how I feel about the tcpdump tool and its kernel counterpart the packet filter interface....
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December 22, 2013
Keeping our open source promise
Back in October I wrote a blog post about CloudFlare and open source software titled CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street which detailed the many ways in which we use and support open source software....
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February 27, 2013
How to Tell How Well Railgun Is Working for Your Site
Yesterday, we announced that 30 of the world's largest hosting providers are now supporting CloudFlare's Railgun WAN optimization technology. ...
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October 05, 2012
CloudFlare and StopBadware partner to make the Web a better place
CloudFlare and StopBadware go way back. Even before CloudFlare was founded, our founders had been working with the StopBadware team to help make the Web a safer, better place for everyone. ...
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May 01, 2012
CloudFlare —WebOps for everyone
No matter whether you run a personal blog or the IT operation of a corporate enterprise, you have discovered that in addition to running a web site, and updating its content or application, a web site comes with difficult operational challenges....
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September 16, 2011
CloudFlare Tips: 5 Frequently used CloudFlare API calls
As many of our Facebook fans and Twitter followers may have noticed recently, CloudFlare has been spending a fair amount of time recently asking what we can do to improve the service. ...
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January 19, 2011
API: How To Build CloudFlare Into Your Web Apps
We're happy to release today a couple APIs that allow web developers to integrate CloudFlare directly into their web applications. CloudFlare DNS / Threat Control API CloudFlare Settings API If you're a web developer, what could you do with these APIs? Well, you could.......
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