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November 25, 2020 3:11 PM
Moving Quicksilver into production
We previously explained how and why we built Quicksilver. This second blog post is about the long journey to production which culminates with Kyoto Tycoon removal from Cloudflare infrastructure and points to the first signs of obsolescence....
August 21, 2020 11:00 AM
How Cloudflare uses Cloudflare Spectrum: A look into an intern’s project at Cloudflare
As part of my onboarding as an intern on the Spectrum (a layer 4 reverse proxy) team, I learned that many internal services dogfood Spectrum, as they are exposed to the Internet and benefit from layer 4 DDoS protection....
May 06, 2020 11:00 AM
Cloudflare Bot Management: machine learning and more
This is the ongoing story of Bot Management at Cloudflare and also an introduction to a series of blog posts about the detection mechanisms powering it...
March 07, 2019 4:05 PM
Diving into Technical SEO using Cloudflare Workers
With this post we illustrate the potential applications of Cloudflare Workers in relation to search engine optimization, which is more commonly referred to as ‘SEO’ using our research and testing over the past year making Sloth....
October 05, 2018 6:30 PM
Leave your VPN and cURL secure APIs with Cloudflare Access
We built Access to solve a problem here at Cloudflare: our VPN. Our team members hated the slowness and inconvenience of VPN but, that wasn’t the issue we needed to solve. The security risks posed by a VPN required a better solution....
February 21, 2018 7:00 PM
Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity
Today, v2 of Pwned Passwords was released as part of the Have I Been Pwned service offered by Troy Hunt. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the industry combats modern threats against pa...
February 21, 2018 7:00 PM
How Developers got Password Security so Wrong
Both in our real lives, and online, there are times where we need to authenticate ourselves - where we need to confirm we are who we say we are. This can be done using three things....
February 02, 2017 12:15 PM
NANOG - the art of running a network and discussing common operational issues
The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is the loci of modern Internet innovation and the day-to-day cumulative network-operational knowledge of thousands and thousands of network engineers....
December 14, 2016 2:25 PM
Manage Cloudflare records with Salt
We use Salt to manage our ever growing global fleet of machines. Salt is great for managing configurations and being the source of truth. We use it for remote command execution and for network automation tasks....
November 08, 2016 6:56 PM
The Internet is Hostile: Building a More Resilient Network
The strength of the Internet is its ability to interconnect all sorts of networks — big data centers, e-commerce websites at small hosting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) — just to name a few. ...