Keeping the Cloudflare API 'all green' using Python-based testing
March 07, 2023 7:00PM
Scout is an automated system providing constant end to end testing and monitoring of live APIs over different environments and resources. Scout does it by periodically running self explanatory Python tests...
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Soar: Simulation for Observability, reliAbility, and secuRity
January 14, 2021 12:00PM
Testing
Observability
Security
Speed & Reliability
In this article, we will discuss one of the techniques we use to fight such software complexity: simulations. Simulations are basically system tests that run with synthesized customer traffic and applications....
Test your home network performance
May 26, 2020 6:00PM
Performance
Speed
Testing
Latency
Jitter
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....
The Internet Mince Pie Data Base: 2018 Edition
December 24, 2018 9:33AM
Testing
A whole 12 months ago we unveiled the true mission of Cloudflare’s scale: to find the best mince pie available to the public. In 2018 we’ve all been extremely busy helping Cloudflare & our customers and therefore we left it very late this year. Uncomfortably late....
Building a new IMDB: Internet Mince Pie Database
December 08, 2017 2:55PM
Developers
Testing
Since joining Cloudflare I’ve always known that as we grew, incredible things would be possible. It’s been a long held ambition to work in an organisation with the scale to answer a very controversial and difficult question....
December 28, 2016 2:10PM
Using Guzzle and PHPUnit for REST API Testing
APIs are increasingly becoming the backbone of the modern internet - whether you're ordering food from an app on your phone or browsing a blog using a modern JavaScript framework, chances are those requests are flowing through an API....