Thinking about color
2019-12-05
An exploration of building accessible color systems for flexible UI theming. ...
The Serverlist: Full Stack Serverless, Serverless Architecture Reference Guides, and more
2019-12-02
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Check out our tenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 2
2019-11-29
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The second blog post in the series on HTML rewriters picks up the story in 2017 after the launch of the Cloudflare edge compute platform Cloudflare Workers. It became clear that the developers using workers wanted the same HTML rewriting capabilities that we used internally, ...
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 1
2019-11-28
To coincide with the launch of streaming HTML rewriting functionality for Cloudflare Workers we are open sourcing the Rust HTML rewriter (LOL HTML) used to back the Workers HTMLRewriter API. We also thought it was about time to review the history of HTML rewriting at Cloudflare....
Introducing the HTMLRewriter API to Cloudflare Workers
2019-11-28
The HTMLRewriter can help solve two big problems web developers face today: making changes to the HTML, when they are hard to make at the server level, and making it possible for HTML to live on the edge, closer to the user — without sacrificing dynamic functionality....
Harnessing the Power of the People: Cloudflare’s First Security Awareness Month Design Challenge Winners
2019-11-27
Grabbing the attention of employees at a security and privacy-focused company on security awareness presents a unique challenge; how do you get people who are already thinking about security all day to think about it some more?...
Introducing Flan Scan: Cloudflare’s Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
2019-11-21
Today, we’re excited to open source Flan Scan, Cloudflare’s in-house lightweight network vulnerability scanner. Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with the added benefit of easy deployment....
Even faster connection establishment with QUIC 0-RTT resumption
2019-11-20
One of the more interesting features introduced by TLS 1.3, the latest revision of the TLS protocol, was the so called “zero roundtrip time connection resumption”, a mode of operation that allows a client to start sending application data, such as HTTP requests...
Log every request to corporate apps, no code changes required
2019-11-17
Cloudflare Access can give your team the ability to introduce logging in a single gateway that applies to all resources protected behind it....
What’s new with Workers KV?
2019-11-06
The Storage team has shipped some new features for Workers KV that folks have been asking for. In this post, we'll talk about some of these new features and how to use them....
The Serverlist: GitHub Actions, Deployment Best Practices, and more
2019-11-05
Check out our ninth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
The Project Jengo Saga: How Cloudflare Stood up to a Patent Troll – and Won!
2019-11-04
Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US. Back in 2016, Blackbird Technologies was notorious in the world of patent litigation....
Going Keyless Everywhere
2019-11-01
Time flies. The Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered just over five and a half years ago. Heartbleed became a household name not only because it was one of the first bugs with its own web page and logo, but because of what it revealed about the fragility of the Internet as a whole....
Delegated Credentials for TLS
2019-11-01
Today we’re happy to announce support for a new cryptographic protocol that helps make it possible to deploy encrypted services in a global network while still maintaining fast performance and tight control of private keys: Delegated Credentials for TLS. ...
Announcing cfnts: Cloudflare's implementation of NTS in Rust
2019-10-31
Several months ago we announced that we were providing a new public time service. Part of what we were providing was the first major deployment of the new Network Time Security protocol, with a newly written implementation of NTS in Rust. ...
The TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
2019-10-30
In June, we announced a wide-scale post-quantum experiment with Google. We implemented two post-quantum (i.e., not yet known to be broken by quantum computers) key exchanges, integrated them into our TLS stack and deployed the implementation on our edge servers and in Chrome Canary clients....
DNS Encryption Explained
2019-10-29
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the address book of the Internet. When you visit cloudflare.com or any other site, your browser will ask a DNS resolver for the IP address where the website can be found. Unfortunately, these DNS queries and answers are typically unprotected....
50 Years of The Internet. Work in Progress to a Better Internet
2019-10-29
It was fifty years ago when the very first network packet took flight from the Los Angeles campus at UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) building in Palo Alto. Those two California sites had kicked-off the world of packet networking, of the Arpanet, and of the modern Internet ......
Fifty Years Ago
2019-10-29
On 29 October 2019, Professor Leonard (“Len”) Kleinrock is chairing a celebration at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The date is the fiftieth anniversary of the first full system test and remote host-to-host login over the Arpanet....
Supporting the latest version of the Privacy Pass Protocol
2019-10-28
At Cloudflare, we are committed to supporting and developing new privacy-preserving technologies that benefit all Internet users. In November 2017, we announced server-side support for the Privacy Pass protocol, a piece of work developed in collaboration with the academic community....
