Reliability

September 17, 2018 2:00PM

The Internet is an amazing invention. We marvel at how it connects people, connects ideas, and makes the world smaller. But the Internet isn’t perfect. It was put together piecemeal through publicly funded research, private investment, and organic growth that has left us with an imperfect tapestry....

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• Nick Sullivan

September 10, 2018 10:21AM

Back in 2015 we deployed ECMP routing - Equal Cost Multi Path - within our datacenters. This technology allowed us to spread traffic heading to a single IP address across multiple physical servers....

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• Marek Majkowski

September 05, 2018 3:58PM

On August 22 a new vulnerability in the Apache Struts framework was announced. We quickly deployed a mitigation to protect customers....

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• Richard Sommerville

August 06, 2018 5:45PM

Cloudflare recently updated the authoritative DNS service to support nine new record types. Since these records are less commonly used than what we previously supported, we thought it would be a good idea to do a brief explanation of each record type and how it is used....

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• Sergi Isasi
• ,  Etienne Labaume

July 26, 2018 7:35PM

In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perimeter” to “host.”...

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• Timothy Fong

July 19, 2018 4:01PM

Last December, Cloudflare announced the Athenian Project to help protect U.S. state and local election websites from cyber attack. Since then, the need to protect our electoral systems has become increasingly urgent....

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• Alissa Starzak
• ,  Erin Walk

July 06, 2018 2:00PM

Internally our DDoS mitigation team is sometimes called "the packet droppers". When other teams build exciting products to do smart things with the traffic that passed through our network, we take joy in discovering novel ways of discarding it....

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• Marek Majkowski

June 21, 2018 12:39AM

We recently announced Argo Tunnel which allows you to deploy your applications anywhere, even if your webserver is sitting behind a NAT or firewall. Now, with support for load balancing, you can spread the traffic across your tunnels....

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• Joaquin Madruga

June 01, 2018 2:13AM

Cloudflare is protected from attacks by the Gatebot DDoS mitigation pipeline. Gatebot performs hundreds of mitigations a day, shielding our infrastructure and our customers from L3 and L7 attacks....

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• Marek Majkowski