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
NGINX
Linux
Performance
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....