What I learned at my first Cloudflare Retreat
November 29, 2017 5:31 PM
For the last seven years, Cloudflare has taken the entire company off site for a few days at the end of the year for a company retreat. ...
Cloudflare’s Super Secret Plan, or why we acquired Neumob
November 14, 2017 2:00 PM
We announced today that Cloudflare has acquired Neumob. Neumob’s team built exceptional technology to speed up mobile apps, reduce errors on challenging mobile networks, and increase conversions. ...
How to Monkey-Patch the Linux Kernel
October 23, 2017 11:28 PM
I have a weird setup. I type in Dvorak. But, when I hold ctrl or alt, my keyboard reverts to Qwerty. You see, the classic text-editing hotkeys, ctrl+Z, ctrl+X, ctrl+C, and ctrl+V are all located optimally for a Qwerty layout....
A Celebration of Learning at Grace Hopper
October 13, 2017 3:00 PM
Over the course of my career, I’ve been to many conferences, interacted with thousands of candidates, and attended countless keynotes, roundtables, and sessions. I can say without a doubt, that the Grace Hopper Celebration, stood out from the rest....
Going Global - a Localization Case Study at Cloudflare
August 23, 2017 8:57 PM
Today Cloudflare serves nearly 10% of all global internet requests and more than 80% of our customers are based outside of the United States. ...
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May 03, 2017 9:02 PM
Introducing the new Cloudflare Community Forum
Cloudflare’s community of users is vast. With more than 6 million domains registered, our users come in all shapes and sizes and are located all over the world. ...
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March 08, 2017 12:44 AM
Cloudflare at Google NEXT 2017
The Cloudflare team is headed to Google NEXT 2017 from March 8th - 10th at Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. We’re excited to meet with customers, partners, and new friends. ...
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February 15, 2017 7:20 PM
Discovering Great Talent with Path Forward
In the fall of 2016, I was just beginning my job search. I’d been lucky to lead HR at a number of great cutting-edge technology start-ups, and I was looking for my next adventure....
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December 13, 2016 2:00 PM
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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July 12, 2016 4:29 PM
More data, more data
The life of a request to CloudFlare begins and ends at the edge. But the afterlife! Like Catullus to Bithynia, the log generated by an HTTP request or a DNS query has much, much further to go....
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October 26, 2015 11:35 AM
Ben Fathi: Why I Joined CloudFlare
I’m sure some of you are scratching your head right about now wondering why I would join an Internet security and optimization company. But, Ben, this is not even close to your passion: operating systems....
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September 17, 2015 10:40 PM
Announcing CloudFlare’s Internet Summit - And How to Get an Invitation
Five years ago next week, CloudFlare launched its service to the public. We’re celebrating our birthday in a variety of ways, including holding our first-ever Internet Summit on Thursday, September 24th....
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August 27, 2015 7:31 PM
SXSW Interactive 2016: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions
It’s that time of year again, when the end of summer is in sight, students are back in school, football is on TV again, and your social feeds are flooded with “vote for my panel at SXSW” updates. ...
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July 24, 2015 10:08 PM
CloudFlare headed to HostingCon 2015. Thanks for the memories and let’s create some more!
The CloudFlare team is heading to HostingCon 2015 in San Diego next week. We are excited to meet colleagues from the industry, reconnect with partners, and make new friends. ...
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July 14, 2015 5:25 PM
CloudFlare Lands a New Office in Singapore
After months of preparation, my teammates Algin, Marty, Adam, Jono and I touched down in Singapore and were greeted by skyscrapers, malls, Singlish, chili crab, and Marty’s special sweet and sour chicken. It immediately hit us that we were no longer in San Francisco....
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May 11, 2015 10:08 AM
CloudFlare "Interview Questions"
For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?...
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January 29, 2015 8:10 PM
DNSSEC Done Right
I’ve been working on DNSSEC evolution for a long time as implementor, IETF working group chair, protocol experimenter, DNS operator, consultant, and evangelist. ...
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November 11, 2014 4:41 PM
Migrating to the Ghost Blogging Platform
For those of you that follow the CloudFlare blog, you’ll know that we try to be prolific. We have industry leaders like Matthew Prince, John Graham-Cumming, Nick Sullivan, and others publishing pieces weekly from the front lines of internet performance and security....
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September 27, 2014 11:11 AM
Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday
Since CloudFlare launched to the public four years ago today, we've always considered September 27th our birthday. We like to celebrate by doing something nice for our team and also for our customers. ...
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