So you want to expose Go on the Internet
December 26, 2016 2:59 PM
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That's not necessary anymore!...
HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2
November 28, 2016 2:10 PM
If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push. ...
How we brought HTTPS Everywhere to the cloud (part 1)
September 24, 2016 3:46 PM
CloudFlare's mission is to make HTTPS accessible for all our customers. It provides security for their websites, improved ranking on search engines, better performance with HTTP/2, and access to browser features such as geolocation that are being deprecated for plaintext HTTP....
Opportunistic Encryption: Bringing HTTP/2 to the unencrypted web
September 21, 2016 3:51 PM
Encrypting the web is not an easy task. Various complexities prevent websites from migrating from HTTP to HTTPS, including mixed content, which can prevent sites from functioning with HTTPS. ...
Accelerating Node.js applications with HTTP/2 Server Push
August 16, 2016 12:17 PM
In April, we announced support for HTTP/2 Server Push via the HTTP Link header. My coworker John has demonstrated how easy it is to add Server Push to an example PHP application. We wanted to make it easy to improve the performance of contemporary websites built with Node.js. ...
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June 30, 2016 12:09 PM
HTTP/2 Server Push with multiple assets per Link header
In April we announced that we had added experimental support for HTTP/2 Server Push to all CloudFlare web sites. We did this so that our customers could iterate on this new functionality. ...
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June 14, 2016 1:04 PM
Secure and fast GitHub Pages with CloudFlare
GitHub offers a web hosting service whereby you can serve a static website from a GitHub repository. This platform, GitHub Pages, can be used with CloudFlare whilst using a custom domain name. ...
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May 13, 2016 1:11 PM
Using HTTP/2 Server Push with PHP
Two weeks ago CloudFlare announced that it was supporting HTTP/2 Server Push for all our customers. By simply adding a Link header to an HTTP response specifying preload CloudFlare would automatically push items to web browsers that support Server Push....
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May 13, 2016 9:55 AM
Open sourcing our NGINX HTTP/2 + SPDY code
In December, we released HTTP/2 support for all customers and on April 28 we released HTTP/2 Server Push support as well....
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April 28, 2016 1:00 PM
Announcing Support for HTTP/2 Server Push
Last November, we rolled out HTTP/2 support for all our customers. At the time, HTTP/2 was not in wide use, but more than 88k of the Alexa 2 million websites are now HTTP/2-enabled....
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April 27, 2016 7:10 PM
Ask Me Anything About HTTP/2
We're big fans of HTTP/2 at CloudFlare. Our customers make up the majority of HTTP/2 enabled domains today. HTTP/2 is a key part of the modern web, and its growth and adoption is changing how websites and applications are built....
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February 03, 2016 5:16 PM
CloudFlare’s Impact On The HTTP/2 “Universe”
CloudFlare released HTTP/2 support for all customers on December 3rd, 2015. Now, two months later, it's time to take a look at the impact of this release on the HTTP/2 "universe" and also at what has changed from a HTTP/2 vs. SPDY vs. HTTP 1.1 traffic ratio perspective....
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December 11, 2015 7:44 PM
HTTP/2 Demo: Under the Hood
At first glance, the potential performance improvements of HTTP/1.1 versus HTTP/2 on our demo page may seem a bit hard to believe. So, we put together a technical explanation of how this demo actually works. ...
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December 10, 2015 12:10 PM
HTTP/2 For Web Developers
HTTP/2 changes the way web developers optimize their websites. In HTTP/1.1, it’s become common practice to eek out an extra 5% of page load speed by hacking away at your TCP connections and HTTP requests with techniques like spriting, inlining, domain sharding, and concatenation....
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