Keepalives considered harmful
March 19, 2020 12:57PM
You’d think keepalives would always be helpful, but turns out reality isn’t always what you expect it to be. It really helps if you read Why does one NGINX worker take all the load? first....
The problem with thread^W event loops
March 18, 2020 12:00PM
NGINX LinuxBack when Cloudflare was created, over 10 years ago now, the dominant HTTP server used to power websites was Apache httpd. However, we decided to build our infrastructure using the then relatively new NGINX server....
Experiment with HTTP/3 using NGINX and quiche
October 17, 2019 3:00PM
NGINX QUIC Chrome Developers HTTP3Just a few weeks ago we announced the availability on our edge network of HTTP/3, the new revision of HTTP intended to improve security and performance on the Internet. Everyone can now enable HTTP/3 on their Cloudflare zone...
NGINX structural enhancements for HTTP/2 performance
May 22, 2019 6:14PM
Speed Week Speed & Reliability NGINX HTTP2My team: the Cloudflare PROTOCOLS team is responsible for termination of HTTP traffic at the edge of the Cloudflare network. We deal with features related to: TCP, QUIC, TLS and Secure Certificate management, HTTP/1 and HTTP/2....
SEO Best Practices with Cloudflare Workers, Part 2: Implementing Subdomains
February 15, 2019 5:09PM
Cloudflare Workers SEO NGINX ServerlessIn Part 1, the merits and tradeoffs of subdirectories and subdomains were discussed. The subdirectory strategy is typically superior to subdomains because subdomains suffer from keyword and backlink dilution....
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