The Serverlist: Deploying Wordpress to Cloudflare, Atlassian Cloud Serverless, and more2019-12-27ServerlessThe Serverlist NewsletterCloudflare WorkersDevelopersDeveloper PlatformCheck out our eleventh edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....Connor Peshek
This holiday's biggest online shopping day was... Black Friday2019-12-24eCommerceSpeed & ReliabilityWhat’s the biggest day of the holiday season for holiday shopping? Black Friday, the day after US Thanksgiving, has been embraced globally as the day retail stores announce their sales....John Graham-Cumming
First Half 2019 Transparency Report and an Update on a Warrant Canary2019-12-20LegalTrust & SafetyTransparencyToday, we are releasing Cloudflare’s transparency report for the first half of 2019. We recognize the importance of keeping the reports current, but It’s taken us a little longer than usual to put it together. We have a few notable updates. ...Alissa StarzakJustin Paine
An Update on CDNJS2019-12-19CDNJSJavaScriptOpen SourceDevelopersCDNJS powers over 10% of the web. A month ago it needed our help, now it needs yours....Zack Bloom
Announcing the CSAM Scanning Tool, Free for All Cloudflare Customers2019-12-18LegalAbuseTwo weeks ago we wrote about Cloudflare's approach to dealing with child sexual abuse material (CSAM). We first began working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the US-based organization that acts as a clearinghouse for removing this abhorrent content...Justin PaineJohn Graham-Cumming
How we used our new GraphQL Analytics API to build Firewall Analytics2019-12-12Product NewsAnalyticsAPIGraphQLFirewall Analytics is the first product in the Cloudflare dashboard to utilize the new GraphQL API. All Cloudflare dashboard products are built using the same public APIs that we provide to our customers, allowing us to understand the challenges they face when interfacing with our APIs....Nick Downie
Introducing the GraphQL Analytics API: exactly the data you need, all in one place2019-12-12AnalyticsProduct NewsAPIGraphQLDevelopersWith our new GraphQL Analytics API, all of your performance, security, and reliability data is available from one endpoint, and you can select exactly what you need....Filipp Nisenzoun
New tools to monitor your server and avoid downtime2019-12-11InsightsAnalyticsProduct NewsWhen your server goes down, it’s a big problem. Today, Cloudflare is introducing two new tools to help you understand and respond faster to origin downtime — plus, a new service to automatically avoid downtime....Brian BatraskiJon LevineSteven Pack
The Two-Year Anniversary of The Athenian Project: Preparing for the 2020 Elections2019-12-10Athenian ProjectLegalTwo years ago, Cloudflare launched its Athenian Project, an effort to protect state and local government election websites from cyber attacks. With the two-year anniversary and many 2020 elections approaching, we are renewing our commitment to provide Cloudflare’s highest level of services for free...Jocelyn Woolbright
Introducing Load Balancing Analytics2019-12-10InsightsAnalyticsLoad BalancingProduct NewsCloudflare aspires to make Internet properties everywhere faster, more secure, and more reliable. Load Balancing helps with speed and reliability and has been evolving over the past three years....Brian BatraskiRohin Lohe
Firewall Analytics: Now available to all paid plans2019-12-09InsightsFirewallAnalyticsProduct NewsOur Firewall Analytics tool enables customers to quickly identify and investigate security threats using an intuitive interface. Until now, this tool had only been available to our Enterprise customers....Alex Cruz Farmer
Announcing deeper insights and new monitoring capabilities from Cloudflare Analytics2019-12-09InsightsAnalyticsProduct NewsLoad BalancingThis week we’re excited to announce a number of new products and features that provide deeper security and reliability insights, “proactive” analytics when there’s a problem, and more powerful ways to explore your data....Filipp Nisenzoun
Cloudflare’s Response to CSAM Online2019-12-06LegalCommunityTrust & SafetyResponding to incidents of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online has been a priority at Cloudflare from the beginning. The stories of CSAM victims are tragic, and bring to light an appalling corner of the Internet. ...Doug KramerJustin Paine
Thinking about color2019-12-05Deep DiveDesignDashboardAn exploration of building accessible color systems for flexible UI theming. ...Sam Mason de CairesAdam Morse
The Serverlist: Full Stack Serverless, Serverless Architecture Reference Guides, and more2019-12-02The Serverlist NewsletterServerlessCloudflare WorkersCloudflare Workers KVDevelopersDeveloper PlatformCheck out our tenth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....Connor Peshek
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 22019-11-29RustCloudflare WorkersServerlessWorkers SitesJavaScriptProduct NewsDeep DiveDevelopersDeveloper PlatformThe second blog post in the series on HTML rewriters picks up the story in 2017 after the launch of the Cloudflare edge compute platform Cloudflare Workers. It became clear that the developers using workers wanted the same HTML rewriting capabilities that we used internally, ...Andrew GalloniIvan Nikulin
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 12019-11-28RustProduct NewsServerlessCloudflare WorkersWorkers SitesJavaScriptTo coincide with the launch of streaming HTML rewriting functionality for Cloudflare Workers we are open sourcing the Rust HTML rewriter (LOL HTML) used to back the Workers HTMLRewriter API. We also thought it was about time to review the history of HTML rewriting at Cloudflare....Andrew GalloniIngvar Stepanyan
Introducing the HTMLRewriter API to Cloudflare Workers2019-11-28Cloudflare WorkersWorkers SitesServerlessJAMstackJavaScriptProduct NewsDevelopersDeveloper PlatformThe HTMLRewriter can help solve two big problems web developers face today: making changes to the HTML, when they are hard to make at the server level, and making it possible for HTML to live on the edge, closer to the user — without sacrificing dynamic functionality....Rita Kozlov
Harnessing the Power of the People: Cloudflare’s First Security Awareness Month Design Challenge Winners2019-11-27SecurityCommunityGrabbing the attention of employees at a security and privacy-focused company on security awareness presents a unique challenge; how do you get people who are already thinking about security all day to think about it some more?...Jacqueline Keith
Introducing Flan Scan: Cloudflare’s Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner2019-11-21SecurityProduct NewsPythonDevelopersToday, we’re excited to open source Flan Scan, Cloudflare’s in-house lightweight network vulnerability scanner. Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with the added benefit of easy deployment....Nadin El-Yabroudi