August 24, 2018 3:11 PM
Here at Cloudflare we use Prometheus to collect operational metrics. We run it on hundreds of servers and ingest millions of metrics per second to get insight into our network and provide the best possible service to our customers....
August 21, 2018 7:08 PM
I grew up with DOS and Windows 3.1. I remember applications being *fast* - instant feedback or close to it. Today, native applications like Outlook or Apple Mail still feel fast - click compose and the window is there instantly and it feels snappy. Internet applications do not....
August 20, 2018 8:00 AM
At Cloudflare we’re accelerating web assets in a number of different ways. Part of this is caching, by storing the response given by the origin server directly within our 151+ global data centers....
July 31, 2018 3:00 PM
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them....
July 31, 2018 8:00 AM
If you've ever played a video game in the past couple of years, chances are you know about Minecraft. You might be familiar with the game or even planted a tree or two, but what you might not know about is the vast number of Minecraft online communities. ...
July 09, 2018 6:08 AM
This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time). ...
July 02, 2018 5:50 PM
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it....
June 29, 2018 1:00 PM
If you followed part one, I have an environment setup where I can write Typescript with tests and deploy to the Cloudflare Edge with npm run upload. For this post, I want to take one of the Worker Recipes further....
April 30, 2018 4:20 PM
Continue exploring Terraform with Cloudflare by enabling load balancing, creating page rules, and rolling back changes....
April 27, 2018 8:18 PM
Write code to manage your Cloudflare configuration using Terraform, and store it in your source code repository of choice for versioned history and rollback....
April 06, 2018 2:00 PM
Serving content from a Rust web server running on a Raspberry Pi from your home to the world, with a Cloudflare Argo Tunnels....
February 26, 2018 12:04 PM
Last week Troy Hunt launched his Pwned Password v2 service which has an API handled and cached by Cloudflare using a clever anonymity scheme. The following simple code can check if a password exists in Troy's database without sending the password to Troy....
February 20, 2018 7:49 PM
At Cloudflare we like Go. We use it in many in-house software projects as well as parts of bigger pipeline systems. But can we take Go to the next level and use it as a scripting language for our favourite operating system, Linux?...
January 31, 2018 12:11 PM
Among other interesting features, Rust has a powerful macro system. Unfortunately, even after reading The Book and various tutorials, when it came to trying to implement a macro which involved processing complex lists of different elements, I still struggled to understand how it ...
