EU Copyright Vote: A Critical Juncture for the Open Internet
2018-09-10
Back in June, we blogged about the draft EU copyright proposal which is currently making its way through the legislative process in Brussels. ...
Fixing an old hack - why we are bumping the IPv6 MTU
2018-09-10
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....
Bob Ross, Lorem Ipsum, Heroku and Cloudflare Workers
2018-09-09
It may not be immediately obvious how these things are related, but bear with me... It was 4pm Friday and one of the engineers on the Cloudflare Tools team came to me with an emergency. "Steve! The Bob Ross Ipsum generator is down!"....
Introducing Real World Serverless - Practical advice on how to use Cloudflare Workers
2018-09-09
We’re getting the best minds on serverless technology from Cloudflare together to lead a series of talks on practical use cases for Cloudflare Workers. Join any of these six global talks for stories of how companies and developers are using serverless in the real world. ...
Website Security Myths
2018-09-08
Some conversations are easy; some are difficult. Some are harmonious and some are laborious. But when it comes to website security, the conversation is confusing. Every organisation agrees, in theory, that their websites need to be secure....
Welcome, WP Engine!
2018-09-05
We’ve had the tremendous pleasure of working with WP Engine for nearly 5 years, starting when both companies employed less than 100 people in total. ...
Protection from Struts Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (S2-057)
2018-09-05
On August 22 a new vulnerability in the Apache Struts framework was announced. We quickly deployed a mitigation to protect customers....
Porting Our Software to ARM64
2018-09-02
As we enable more ARM64[1] machines in our network, I want to give some technical insight into the process we went through to reach software parity in our multi-architecture environment....
Identifying and alerting on data loss using Cloudflare Workers
2018-08-30
Becoming aware and identifying data breaches as they happen, however, is not an easy task. It is often challenging for companies to become aware of their own data breaches and losses. Workers allow you to identify and get alerted on data breaches as they occur....
Building a diverse business development team in EMEA
2018-08-30
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet, and we are also serious about building a diverse workforce where everyone can be themselves, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, or cultural background....
Using Edge-Side Includes with Workers for High Availability
2018-08-28
In this guest post, you will learn about how the author's client, Titel Media, was able to use Cloudflare Workers to implement simple edge side includes....
Using Workers To Make Static Sites Dynamic
2018-08-26
The following is a guest post by Paddy Sherry, Lead Developer at Gambling.com Group. They build performance marketing websites and tools, using Cloudflare to serve to their global audience....
Introducing ebpf_exporter
2018-08-24
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....
Refresh Stale DNS Records on 1.1.1.1
2018-08-21
You can now refresh 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache for domain names by using the purge cache tool. This is useful for domain owners who have updated their DNS records and want to make sure it is reflected for people who are using 1.1.1.1 as their public DNS resolver....
Internet Native Applications
2018-08-21
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....
Integrating redirection.io with Cloudflare Workers
2018-08-21
Redirection.io is a Web traffic redirection manager. It provides a collection of tools for website administrators, SEO agencies, and developers, which help analyze HTTP errors, setup HTTP redirections, customize HTTP responses, and monitor the traffic efficiently....
How Cloudflare protects customers from cache poisoning
2018-08-20
A few days ago, Cloudflare — along with the rest of the world — learned of a "practical" cache poisoning attack. In this post I’ll walk through the attack and explain how Cloudflare mitigated it for our customers....
Edge-Side-Includes with Cloudflare Workers
2018-08-20
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....
African traffic growth and predictions for the future
2018-08-19
Looking back at our historical data, we realized how much the Internet and Cloudflare grew. With more than 150 data centers, 10 percent of web-based applications, customers everywhere around the world, from the tiny islands in the Pacific to the big metropolises....
