Highlights from Cloudflare's Weekend at YHack
December 16, 2017 5:00 PM
Along with four other Cloudflare colleagues, I traveled to New Haven, CT last weekend to support 1,000+ college students from Yale and beyond at YHack hackathon....
The end of the road for Server: cloudflare-nginx
December 11, 2017 2:00 PM
Six years ago when I joined Cloudflare the company had a capital F, about 20 employees, and a software stack that was mostly NGINX, PHP and PowerDNS (there was even a little Apache). ...
Building a new IMDB: Internet Mince Pie Database
December 08, 2017 2:55 PM
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. ...
Cloudflare Apps Platform Update: November Edition
November 28, 2017 6:00 PM
Since our last newsletter, dozens of developers like you have reached out with ideas for new kinds of apps that weren’t yet possible. ...
Releasing AddThis on Cloudflare Apps: Making Disciplined Product Design Decisions
November 22, 2017 1:00 PM
When our team learned about the opportunity to build an AddThis app on Cloudflare Apps, I was ready to pounce. ...
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November 13, 2017 10:31 AM
Go, don't collect my garbage
Not long ago I needed to benchmark the performance of Golang on a many-core machine. I took several of the benchmarks that are bundled with the Go source code, copied them, and modified them to run on all available threads....
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November 10, 2017 3:00 PM
Cloudflare Wants to Buy Your Meetup Group Pizza
If you’re a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza. ...
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October 27, 2017 5:30 PM
5 Strategies to Promote Your App
Brady Gentile from Cloudflare's product team wrote an App Developer Playbook, embedded within the developer documentation page. ...
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October 25, 2017 5:00 PM
Spotify's Cloudflare App is open source: fork it for your next project
Earlier this year, Cloudflare Apps was launched so app developers may leverage our global network of 6 million+ websites, applications, and APIs. ...
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October 23, 2017 12:57 PM
Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added. ...
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October 19, 2017 7:38 AM
Helping to make LuaJIT faster
Programming language Virtual Machines (VMs) are familiar beasts: we use them to run apps on our phone, code inside our browsers, and programs on our servers. ...
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October 12, 2017 2:17 PM
Cloudflare London Meetup Recap
Cloudflare helps make over 6 million websites faster and more secure. In doing so, Cloudflare has a vast and diverse community of users throughout the world. ...
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October 01, 2017 5:00 PM
Go Hack Nights at Cloudflare
Recently we launched an internal monthly Go Hack Night at our San Francisco office, open to anyone who works at Cloudflare regardless of their department or position. ...
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September 29, 2017 1:01 PM
Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
It all comes down to the speed of light. It always does. The speed of light limits the latency possible between someone using the Internet and the application they are accessing. ...
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September 29, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality. ...
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September 28, 2017 7:13 PM
Cloudflare Apps Platform Update: September Edition
Since launch, we’ve received hundreds of feature requests from developers and users alike. Feedback has been the source of some our most popular features. ...
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September 23, 2017 12:01 AM
A New API Binding: cloudflare-php
Back in May last year, one of my colleagues blogged about the introduction of our Python binding for the Cloudflare API and drew reference to our other bindings in Go and Node. Today we are complimenting this range by introducing a new official binding, this time in PHP....
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September 19, 2017 1:04 PM
Cloudflare and Google Offer App Developers $100,000 in Cloud Platform Credits
When Cloudflare started, our company needed two things: an initial group of users, and the finances to fund our development....
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August 25, 2017 9:39 PM
App Highlight: Trebble
Earlier this month, Armel Beaudry Kembe spoke at the Ottawa JS meetup to introduce his experience in developing his app Trebble.fm on the new Cloudflare App platform....
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