My Cloudflaraversery: Things I’ve Learned Along the Way
2019-02-23
A year ago, I joined the marketing team at Cloudflare. I was first attracted to Cloudflare by its audacious mission: to help build a better Internet. ...
Cloudflare Registrar at three months
2019-02-22
Starting today, we’re excited to make Cloudflare Registrar available to all of our customers. As part of this announcement, we’d like to share some insights and data about domain registration that we learned during the early access period....
Cloudflare Access now supports RDP
2019-02-21
Last fall, the United States FBI warned organizations of an increase in attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Attackers stole sensitive data and compromised networks by taking advantage of desktops left unprotected....
Join us for 5 serverless events in SF Bay Area this week
2019-02-20
Developer Week Bay Area is approaching and our engineers and developer relations team are delivering several talks around the Bay. Join us in San Francisco and Oakland for the following talks....
Stop the Bots: Practical Lessons in Machine Learning
2019-02-20
Bot-powered credential stuffing is a scourge on the modern Internet. These attacks attempt to log into and take over a user’s account by assaulting password forms with a barrage of dictionary words and previously stolen account credentials....
Announcing workers.dev
2019-02-19
We are working really hard to allow you to deploy Workers without having a Cloudflare domain. You will soon be able to deploy your Cloudflare Workers to a subdomain-of-your-choice.workers.dev, which you can go claim now on workers.dev!...
SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future
2019-02-18
Proper TCP socket splicing reduces the load on userspace processes and enables more efficient data forwarding. We realized that Linux Kernel's SOCKMAP infrastructure can be reused for this purpose....
Introducing Cf-Terraforming
2019-02-15
Ever since we implemented support for configuring Cloudflare via Terraform, we’ve been steadily expanding the set of features and services you can manage via this popular open-source tool. ...
SEO Best Practices with Cloudflare Workers, Part 2: Implementing Subdomains
2019-02-15
In Part 1, the merits and tradeoffs of subdirectories and subdomains were discussed. The subdirectory strategy is typically superior to subdomains because subdomains suffer from keyword and backlink dilution. ...
SEO Best Practices with Cloudflare Workers, Part 1: Subdomain vs. Subdirectory
2019-02-15
Alice and Bob are budding blogger buddies who met up at a meetup and purchased some root domains to start writing. Alice bought aliceblogs.com and Bob scooped up bobtopia.com....
Solving Problems with Serverless – The Cloudflare LED Data Center Board, Part I
2019-02-14
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You know you have a cool job when your first project lets you bring your hobby into the office. ...
Winning the Blackbird Battle
2019-02-14
We’re happy to report that on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming a lower court decision dismissing the case brought by Blackbird Tech. This is the last step in the process, we’ve won....
The Curious Case of the Garden State Imposter
2019-02-13
Dealing with abuse complaints isn’t easy, for any Internet company. The variety of subject matters at issue, the various legal and regulatory requirements, and the uncertain intentions of complaining parties combine to create a ridiculously complex situation....
Introducing The Serverlist: Cloudflare's New Serverless Newsletter
2019-02-12
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At Cloudflare, we've been digging our heels into serverless, so we created The Serverlist newsletter, enabling us to share interesting content in the serverless space with the developer community. ...
IBM Cloud Internet Services protects any cloud – now with Cloudflare Spectrum and Workers
2019-02-11
At Cloudflare, we have an ambitious mission of helping to build a better Internet. Partnerships are a core part of how we achieve this mission. Last year we joined forces with IBM....
Give your automated services credentials with Access service tokens
2019-02-07
Cloudflare Access secures your internal sites by adding authentication. When a request is made to a site behind Access, Cloudflare asks the visitor to login with your identity provider....
Better business results from faster web applications - Cloudflare is the fastest
2019-02-06
Does page speed affect revenue? It does, and to a large degree. Learn why Cloudflare is the most effective when it comes to boosting site speed and performance....
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 6: What does Cloudflare's CTO do?
2019-02-06
If you are still awake there’s really one final question that you might want to know the answer to: What does the CTO do? The reality is that it means different things in different companies. But I can tell you a little about what I do....
Cloudflare Support for Azure Customers
2019-02-05
Cloudflare seeks to help its end customers use whichever public and private clouds best suit their needs. Towards that goal, we have been working to make sure our solutions work well with various public cloud providers including Microsoft’s Azure platform....
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 5: People: Finding, Nurturing and Learning to Let Go
2019-02-05
So, let me talk a bit about people. Software is made by people. Sometimes individuals but more likely by teams. I’ve talked earlier about some aspects of our architecture and our frequent rewrites but it’s people that make all that work. ...