Cloudflare is deprecating Railgun
2023-06-01
Cloudflare will deprecate Railgun on January 2024...
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Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
2017-04-25
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
Caching Anonymous Page Views
2016-12-12
The load time of your website not only affects your search engine rankings, but is also correlated to the conversion rate on your site....
What's inside net/http? Late binding in the Go standard library
2015-12-21
It's well known that we're heavy users of the Go programming language at CloudFlare. Our work often involves delving into the standard library source code to understand internal code paths, error handling and performance characteristics....
Simple Helix chooses CloudFlare to ignite white-hot Magento performance
2015-09-01
Some months ago, we made a big bet on partnering with CloudFlare for performance improvements and website security for our Magento hosting customers. Customer experience is core to our business and relying on another company is a major deal. ...
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Railgun v5 has landed: better, faster, lighter
Three years ago we launched Railgun, CloudFlare's origin network optimizer. Railgun allows us to cache the uncacheable to accelerate the connection between CloudFlare and our customers' origin servers. ...
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August 19, 2014 4:32 AM
CloudFlare hiring Go programmers in London and San Francisco
Are you familiar with the Go programming language and looking for a job in San Francisco or London? Then think about applying to CloudFlare. We're looking for people with experience writing Go in both locations....
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May 28, 2014 1:15 PM
Welcome to Miami: HostingCon 2014
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November 11, 2013 1:00 AM
What we've been doing with Go
Almost two years ago CloudFlare started working with Go. What started as an experiment on one network and concurrency heavy project has turned into full, production use of Go for multiple services....
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August 24, 2013 1:46 AM
Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go....
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July 15, 2013 3:00 PM
Railgun Gives our Ecommerce Sites the Edge
In March 2013, we started testing Railgun, and slowly rolled it out across our three web properties. We saw immediate results. First, we saw instant reductions in time to retrieve uncached HTML documents, and as an ecommerce web property every millisecond counts....
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June 12, 2013 8:00 AM
CloudFlare will be at HostingCon 2013 in Full Force
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February 27, 2013 11:07 PM
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Yesterday, we announced that 30 of the world's largest hosting providers are now supporting CloudFlare's Railgun WAN optimization technology. ...
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February 26, 2013 8:51 AM
CloudFlare's Railgun: Easier Than Ever
Over the next few days we have a number of announcements regarding CloudFlare's Railgun technology. We wanted to begin, however, with what is in some ways the end: the ways in which you can take advantage of Railgun yourself....
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December 21, 2012 10:50 AM
Railgun in the real world: faster web page load times
To solve that problem CloudFlare came up with a delta compression technique that recognizes that even dynamically-generated or personalized pages change only a little over time or between users....
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November 18, 2012 12:35 AM
Do you want to work with Go?
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the sort of high-performance, highly-concurrent software we have to write....
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July 13, 2012 4:26 PM
CloudFlare Heads to HostingCon 2012
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July 03, 2012 3:21 PM
Go at CloudFlare
The other day I blogged here about our new Railgun software that speeds up the back haul between CloudFlare data centers and our clients' servers. At CloudFlare we're using a number of different languages depending on the task....
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July 03, 2012 7:00 AM
Making Edge Side Includes (ESI) Automatic and Easy
On HTTP, caching is done at the file level. A browser will cache the JPEG, CSS, and Javascript files on a page. However, the HTML of most pages is dynamically generated. As a result, the pages cannot be cached. ...
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July 02, 2012 5:44 AM
Caching the uncacheable: CloudFlare's Railgun
CloudFlare recently rolled out a premium service called Railgun that's available to CloudFlare Business and Enterprise customers. Railgun is web optimization software that's designed to speed up the delivery of content that cannot be cached....
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