August 19, 2014 4:32 AM
Are you familiar with the Go programming language and looking for a job in San Francisco or London? Then think about applying to CloudFlare. We're looking for people with experience writing Go in both locations....
July 11, 2014 1:00 PM
This was an internal email that I sent to the CloudFlare team about how we are not afraid to throw away old code. We thought it was worth sharing with a wider audience....
May 28, 2014 1:15 PM
This year’s HostingCon will be held in Miami Beach, and the CloudFlare team is busy prepping. This is our fourth year at the show and our team is excited to see partners, customers and friends....
March 13, 2014 9:00 AM
There are days when you feel quite ecstatic and know you have succeeded in completing each and every task set before you. Monday was one of those days - well nearly....
January 30, 2014 2:00 PM
Each day at CloudFlare is full of surprises. As it turns out, it takes a lot of work to stop massive attacks and to help make the web faster. Over the past six months, our entire team has contributed in every way imaginable to more than double the capacity of our global network. ...
September 27, 2013 4:15 AM
Today is CloudFlare's birthday. We opened to the public exactly three years ago today, September 27, 2010. In those three years we've grown to power more than 1.5 million websites and sit in front of more than 4% of all web requests....
April 28, 2013 8:28 PM
CloudFlare's first international office opened this month near St. Paul's Cathedral in London. We decided to open this office for two major reasons: to get access to high quality software engineering, network operations and tech support folks, and to expand our 24/7 operations an...
February 28, 2013 5:47 PM
When we talk about international expansion we're usually talking about adding data centers around the world. The last one we added was in Seoul, South Korea....
November 18, 2012 12:35 AM
It's no secret that CloudFlare has adopted Go for some production systems; we've written about our use of Go in the past. But over time it's become clear to us that Go is an important language for the sort of high-performance, highly-concurrent software we have to write....
March 20, 2012 9:56 PM
We are frequently asked by customers, media, friends and peers the story of how CloudFlare started. Next week, CloudFlare co-founders Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway will tell this story first hand at the Harvard Club of San Francisco's Founders Series....
October 15, 2011 7:11 PM
In the summer of 2010, before CloudFlare's public launch, we took the team to Vegas to celebrate our first 100 websites. This summer, we crossed more than 100,000 websites using CloudFlare so we decided to head out on another team retreat....
June 25, 2011 1:00 AM
About 8 months ago I posted a blog post about how CloudFlare had served 1 billion requests that month. It was quite a milestone for our young startup. This week we crossed a new milestone: now serving more than 1 billion requests every day. ...
June 14, 2011 3:25 AM
This evening, as I went to get some pictures off my camera, I came across these photos from almost a year ago I don't remember taking. They're from the early days of CloudFlare. In the next few weeks we'll welcome our 20th employee. ...
April 01, 2011 4:31 PM
It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco and the office was full of April Fool's jokes. The creativity was spearheaded by Matthieu, who recruited Matthew and Jason to help him execute several ideas. The pranks included wrapping Lee's desk in parcel paper, packaging Ian's desk...
March 23, 2011 10:35 PM
In February, CloudFlare packed up our first office in Palo Alto and headed up the 101 to San Francisco. The new office is located in the heart of San Francisco's SOMA district, complete with an one block walk to Caltrain, the Giants stadium and Blue Bottle Coffee....
March 12, 2011 12:56 AM
Last week the CloudFlare team opened our new San Francisco office to our users and friends for an open house / loft party. We had The Peelers, a terrific local mashup band, entertain the crowd while everyone sipped drinks and snacked on great food from San Francisco street cart v...
March 09, 2011 7:59 PM
CloudFlare launched to the public at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference on September 27, 2010. We were named the Most Innovative Company at the conference and came in second in the overall competition. Recently we were invited by TechCrunch to write an update on what's happened si...
September 20, 2010 11:25 PM
We have a new face around Cloudflare. Damon Billian came on-board in early September and is here to focus on the Cloudflare community. We believe in building a strong community since one of the powerful things about Cloudflare is that with every new site on the system, the system...
