July 01, 2020 12:00PM
Making the WAF 40% faster
WAF
Performance
As with all Cloudflare security products, the WAF is designed to not sacrifice performance for security, but there is always room for improvement.
This blog post provides a brief overview of the latest performance improvements that were rolled out to our customers....
May 26, 2020 6:00PM
Test your home network performance
Performance
Speed
Testing
Latency
Jitter
COVID-19
Insights
Cloudflare launches speed.cloudflare.com, a tool that allows you to gain in-depth insights into the quality of your network uplink, including throughput, latency and jitter....
May 08, 2020 1:46PM
CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche
QUIC
HyStart++
QUICHE
Performance
IETF
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network conditions....
April 14, 2020 12:00PM
Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
HTTP2
HTTP3
Better Internet
QUIC
Performance
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users....
March 25, 2020 12:00PM
Speeding up Linux disk encryption
Linux
Kernel
Crypto
Performance
Security
Encrypting data at rest is vital for Cloudflare with more than 200 data centres across the world. In this post, we will investigate the performance of disk encryption on Linux and explain how we made it at least two times faster for ourselves and our customers!...
March 19, 2020 12:57PM
Keepalives considered harmful
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....