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August 21, 2018 7:08 PM
Internet Native Applications
I grew up with DOS and Windows 3.1. I remember applications being *fast* - instant feedback or close to it. Today, native applications like Outlook or Apple Mail still feel fast - click compose and the window is there instantly and it feels snappy. Internet applications do not....
August 09, 2018 3:42 PM
Optimising Caching on Pwned Passwords (with Workers)
In February, Troy Hunt unveiled Pwned Passwords v2. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the ...
August 07, 2018 1:00 PM
Use Cloudflare Stream to build secure, reliable video apps
Cloudflare Stream is the best way for any founder or developer to deliver an extraordinary video experience to their viewers while cutting development time and costs, and as of today it is available to every Cloudflare customer....
August 06, 2018 4:45 PM
Additional Record Types Available with Cloudflare DNS
Cloudflare recently updated the authoritative DNS service to support nine new record types. Since these records are less commonly used than what we previously supported, we thought it would be a good idea to do a brief explanation of each record type and how it is used....
July 31, 2018 3:00 PM
How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post i...
July 26, 2018 6:35 PM
Q2 FY 18 Product Releases, for a better Internet “end-to-end”
In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perim...
July 26, 2018 3:04 PM
The Road to QUIC
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....
July 21, 2018 3:51 PM
I Wanna Go Fast - Load Balancing Dynamic Steering
Earlier this month we released Dynamic Steering for Load Balancing which allows you to have your Cloudflare load balancer direct traffic to the fastest pool for a given Cloudflare region or colo (Enterprise only)....
July 17, 2018 1:00 PM
Proxying traffic to Report URI with Cloudflare Workers
With the continued growth of Report URI we're seeing a larger and larger variety of sites use the service. With that diversity comes additional requirements that need to be met, some of them simple and some of them less so. ...
July 09, 2018 6:08 AM
Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time). ...
July 04, 2018 2:58 PM
Too Old To Rocket Load, Too Young To Die
Rocket Loader is in the news again. One of Cloudflare's earliest web performance products has been re-engineered for contemporary browsers and Web standards.
It controls the load and execution of your JavaScript, ensuring useful, meaningful page content is unblocked and displaye...
July 02, 2018 5:50 PM
Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and Lambda@Edge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it....
June 20, 2018 11:39 PM
Argo Tunnels: Spread the Load
We recently announced Argo Tunnel which allows you to deploy your applications anywhere, even if your webserver is sitting behind a NAT or firewall. Now, with support for load balancing, you can spread the traffic across your tunnels....
June 01, 2018 4:31 PM
We have lift off - Rocket Loader GA is mobile!
Today we’re excited to announce the official GA of Rocket Loader, our JavaScript optimisation feature that will prioritise getting your content in front of your visitors faster than ever before with improved Mobile device support. ...