April 11, 2016 1:23PM
The curious case of slow downloads
Speed & Reliability
NGINX
Programming
Some time ago we discovered that certain very slow downloads were getting abruptly terminated and began investigating whether that was a client (i.e. web browser) or server (i.e. us) problem....
November 19, 2015 3:05PM
The story of one latency spike
NGINX
Speed & Reliability
Reliability
Programming
A customer reported an unusual problem with our CloudFlare CDN: our servers were responding to some HTTP requests slowly. Extremely slowly. 30 seconds slowly....
October 30, 2014 12:08PM
Take a break and watch two recent engineering talks
NGINX
Events
Speed & Reliability
Go
Recently, I spoke at the dotGo 2014 conference in Paris and my colleague (and creator of OpenResty) Yichun Zhang spoke at the first NGINX conference in San Francisco....
October 01, 2014 11:57PM
Universal SSL: How It Scales
TLS
NGINX
HTTPS
Universal SSL
SSL
Security
Cryptography
On Monday, we announced Universal SSL, enabling HTTPS for all websites using CloudFlare’s Free plan. Universal SSL represents a massive increase in the number of sites we serve over HTTPS—from tens of thousands, to millions....
October 07, 2013 7:00PM
CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street
Open Source
Programming
NGINX
GitHub
LUA
CloudFlare uses a great deal of open source and free software. Our core server platform is nginx (which is released using a two-clause BSD license) and our primary database of choice is postgresql (which is released using their own BSD-like license)....
August 23, 2013 6:31AM
CloudFlare's new WAF: compiling to Lua
We use nginx throughout our network for front-line web serving, proxying and traffic filtering. In some cases, we've augmented the core C co...