June 24, 2015 4:40 PM
Someone once said that the best things in life are free and I can’t agree more. I want to draw the attention of the CloudFlare community to a great resource that helps maximize the value of our product. ...
June 18, 2015 11:14 AM
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....
March 10, 2015 12:59 PM
It’s 9am and CloudFlare has already mitigated three billion malicious requests for our customers today. Six out of every one hundred requests we see are malicious, and increasingly, more of those bad requests are targeting DNS nameservers. ...
March 06, 2015 2:33 PM
DNS, one of the oldest technologies running the Internet, keeps evolving. There is a constant stream of new developments, from DNSSEC, through DNS-over-TLS, to a plentiful supply of fresh EDNS extensions....
February 05, 2015 6:48 PM
CloudFlare is, arguably, the largest third-party DNS Authoritative operator in the world. We manage well over 1 million domains and have registrations in almost every TLD open for registrations....
November 05, 2014 2:25 PM
DNSSEC is an extension to DNS: it provides a system of trust for DNS records. In this post we examine some of the complications of DNSSEC, and what CloudFlare plans to do to reduce any negative impact they might have. ...
October 07, 2014 10:39 AM
At CloudFlare our mission is to help build a better Internet. Part of this effort includes making web sites faster, more reliable, and more trustworthy....
August 19, 2014 4:32 AM
Are you familiar with the Go programming language and looking for a job in San Francisco or London? Then think about applying to CloudFlare. We're looking for people with experience writing Go in both locations....
July 02, 2014 12:14 AM
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. ...
June 13, 2014 5:40 AM
On the 10th of June, the UK domain registry Nominet made available second-level domain namespace to the public, allowing anyone to register a domain ending with simply .uk...
April 03, 2014 12:34 AM
This post is about a new feature we've been quietly rolling out over the last few months. Last week we began enabling it for everyone by default. ...
April 01, 2014 1:19 AM
A cornerstone of CloudFlare's infrastructure is our ability to serve DNS requests quickly and handle DNS attacks. To do both those things we wrote our own authoritative DNS server called RRDNS in Go. ...
January 30, 2014 9:24 AM
Over the past few years, the CloudFlare blog has covered a great range of different topics, drilling down into the technology we use to both protect websites from attack, and optimise them so that they load faster for visitors....
August 27, 2013 6:15 PM
At 1:19pm (PDT) today, a researcher noticed that the New York Times' website wasn't loading. We know the New York Times tech team, so we sent an email to check in. A few minutes later, the CTO of the NYT called us back. ...
August 27, 2013 12:10 AM
About a year ago, we realized that CloudFlare's current DNS infrastructure had some challenges. We were using PowerDNS, an open source DNS server that is popular with hosting providers. ...
August 06, 2013 2:40 PM
We're going to do a series of blog posts about some of the inner workings of CloudFlare. One of the questions we get often is what the names of our name servers mean. Here's the story....
March 07, 2013 4:45 PM
We've mentioned before that we're using Go internally for projects such as Railgun (and a new DNS server and SSL infrastructure amongst other things). ...
February 22, 2013 9:12 PM
This has been a rough week in the security industry with big attacks and compromises reported at companies from Facebook to Apple. ...
January 07, 2013 5:38 AM
CloudFlare runs one of the largest networks of DNS servers in the world. Over the last few months, we've invested in making our DNS as fast and responsive as possible. We were happy to see these efforts pay off in third-party DNS test results....
