Hardware

November 20, 2020 12:00PM

A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements....

By 
• Brian Bassett

November 17, 2020 12:00PM

As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale....

By 
• Derek Chamorro
• ,  Ryan Chow

March 02, 2020 1:00PM

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....

By 
• Marek Majkowski

March 01, 2020 1:00PM

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....

By 
• Nitin Rao

February 28, 2020 2:00PM

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?...

By 
• Derek Chamorro
• ,  Brian Bassett

February 27, 2020 2:00PM

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....

By 
• Sung Park

February 26, 2020 12:00PM

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....

By 
• Sung Park

February 25, 2020 2:00PM

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...

By 
• Rob Dinh

February 24, 2020 1:00PM

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....

By 
• Nitin Rao
• ,  John Graham-Cumming