March 12, 2019 7:00AM
Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web!
Today, March 12th 2019, marks the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web! Cloudflare is helping to celebrate in coordination with the Web Foundation, as part of a 30 hour commemoration of the many ways in which the Web has changed our lives....
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February 06, 2019 8:26AM
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 6: What does Cloudflare's CTO do?
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Our History
If you are still awake there’s really one final question that you might want to know the answer to: What does the CTO do? The reality is that it means different things in different companies. But I can tell you a little about what I do....
February 05, 2019 8:41AM
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 5: People: Finding, Nurturing and Learning to Let Go
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So, let me talk a bit about people. Software is made by people. Sometimes individuals but more likely by teams. I’ve talked earlier about some aspects of our architecture and our frequent rewrites but it’s people that make all that work....
February 04, 2019 8:41AM
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 4: Public Engagement
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Open Source
We don’t believe that any of our software, not a single line of code, provides us with a long-term advantage. We could, today, open source every single line of code at Cloudflare and we don’t believe we’d be hurt by it....
February 03, 2019 10:00AM
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 3: Audacity, Diversity and Change
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After Cloudbleed, lots of things changed. We started to move away from memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ (there’s a lot more Go and Rust now). And every SIGABRT or crash on any machine results in an email to me and a message to the team responsible....