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February 01, 2018 5:00 PM
Cloudflare Workers is now on Open Beta
Cloudflare Workers Beta is now open!
Cloudflare Workers lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare’s edge, deploying globally to over 120+ data centers around the world in less than 30 seconds. Your code can intercept and modify any request made to your website....
January 27, 2018 1:58 AM
Lessons learned from adapting Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps
As a startup founder, there are always key product decisions to be made when Site Search 360, our key product, is embedded in one context versus another. I’d like to share some experiences, choices, and challenges in our process packaging Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps....
December 16, 2017 5:00 PM
Highlights from Cloudflare's Weekend at YHack
Along with four other Cloudflare colleagues, I traveled to New Haven, CT last weekend to support 1,000+ college students from Yale and beyond at YHack hackathon....
November 22, 2017 1:00 PM
Releasing AddThis on Cloudflare Apps: Making Disciplined Product Design Decisions
When our team learned about the opportunity to build an AddThis app on Cloudflare Apps, I was ready to pounce. ...
November 10, 2017 3:00 PM
Cloudflare Wants to Buy Your Meetup Group Pizza
If you’re a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza. ...
October 23, 2017 12:57 PM
Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added. ...
September 29, 2017 1:01 PM
Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
It all comes down to the speed of light. It always does. The speed of light limits the latency possible between someone using the Internet and the application they are accessing. ...
September 29, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality. ...
April 25, 2017 7:45 AM
Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
November 12, 2016 1:00 PM
Generating Documentation for TypeScript Projects
Traditionally, JavaScript docs use code comments. This post explores generating documentation directly from TypeScript source code, a more efficient alternative....
August 16, 2016 12:17 PM
Accelerating Node.js applications with HTTP/2 Server Push
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. ...
June 08, 2016 5:47 PM
Open Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework
Late last year, the CloudFlare UI team made a huge decision: to change JavaScript frameworks from Backbone & Marionette to React & Redux....
May 10, 2016 3:21 PM
How we built Origin CA: Web Crypto
At CloudFlare we strive to combine features that are simple, secure, and backed by solid technology. The Origin CA is a great example of this. You no longer need to go to a third-party certificate authority to protect the connection between CloudFlare and your origin server....
April 30, 2015 12:02 PM
An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
CloudFlare protects millions of websites from online threats. One of the oldest and most pervasive attacks launched against websites is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack....