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. ...
Go, don't collect my garbage
November 13, 2017 10:31 AM
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....
ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison
November 08, 2017 8:03 PM
One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware. ...
A Fast, Secure Migration to Google Cloud Platform using Cloudflare
October 06, 2017 2:00 PM
OnAir Video Presentation Abstract Looking to host your website, application, or API in the cloud, or migrate to a new cloud provider while keeping your data secure? In this webinar, Trey Guinn, Head of Solutions Engineering at Cloudflare, will discuss how companies should approach security, during and after migration. We'll highlight the migration story of LUSH, one of the largest global e-Commerce cosmetic retailers, and how they took the right steps to migrate from their previous cloud p...
Introducing Cloudflare Warp: Hide Behind The Edge
September 28, 2017 1:01 PM
I work at a company whose job it is to be attacked. As I’m writing this, an automatic mitigation is fighting two ongoing DDoS attacks. Any machine that’s publicly routable on the internet today can be a vector for attack, and that’s a problem....
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September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Cloudflare Stream: Fixing the Streaming Video Market
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it....
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September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
How Cloudflare Streams
Every day, close to 1 billion people watch video through Cloudflare. That’s 100 petabytes of video every month. Last year, video made up 73% of all internet traffic, which is why earlier today we announced Cloudflare Stream....
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September 14, 2017 6:38 PM
Making Mobile Faster than Fixed Line
Cole Crawford, Founder & CEO, Vapor IO, and Chaitali Sengupta, Consultant, Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies...
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September 10, 2017 5:04 PM
Delivering Dot
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator). F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a sh...
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August 28, 2017 2:00 PM
The WireX Botnet: How Industry Collaboration Disrupted a DDoS Attack
On August 17th, 2017, multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and content providers were subject to significant attacks from a botnet dubbed WireX. ...
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July 21, 2017 8:01 AM
How to use Cloudflare for Service Discovery
Cloudflare runs 3,588 containers, making up 1,264 apps and services that all need to be able to find and discover each other in order to communicate -- a problem solved with service discovery....
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May 18, 2017 1:00 PM
Introducing Argo — A faster, more reliable, more secure Internet for everyone
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
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May 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Introducing Load Balancing & Intelligent Failover with Cloudflare
Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. ...
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May 10, 2017 9:50 PM
How Cloudflare analyzes 1M DNS queries per second
On Friday, we announced DNS analytics for all Cloudflare customers. Because of our scale –– by the time you’ve finished reading this, Cloudflare DNS will have handled millions of DNS queries –– we had to be creative in our implementation. ...
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May 05, 2017 2:55 PM
Meet The Brand New DNS Analytics Dashboard
Have you noticed something new in your Cloudflare analytics dashboard this morning? You can now see detailed DNS analytics for your domains on Cloudflare....
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April 25, 2017 7:45 AM
Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
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April 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Understanding Our Cache and the Web Cache Deception Attack
About a month ago, security researcher Omer Gil published the details of an attack that he calls the Web Cache Deception attack. It works against sites that sit behind a reverse proxy (like Cloudflare) and are misconfigured in a particular way....
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April 11, 2017 9:28 AM
How we made our DNS stack 3x faster
Cloudflare is now well into its 6th year and providing authoritative DNS has been a core part of infrastructure from the start. We’ve since grown to be the largest and one of the fastest managed DNS services on the Internet, hosting DNS for nearly 100,000 of the Alexa top 1M site...
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February 21, 2017 1:40 PM
LuaJIT Hacking: Getting next() out of the NYI list
At Cloudflare we’re heavy users of LuaJIT and in the past have sponsored many improvements to its performance. ...
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