The Black Elephant in the Room
2019-02-04
Cloudflare is starting a new cultural community in the workplace called Afroflare. Our Mission: To help build a better Global Afro-community at Cloudflare and beyond" ...
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 4: Public Engagement
2019-02-04
We don’t believe that any of our software, not a single line of code, provides us with a long-term advantage. We could, today, open source every single line of code at Cloudflare and we don’t believe we’d be hurt by it....
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 3: Audacity, Diversity and Change
2019-02-03
After Cloudbleed, lots of things changed. We started to move away from memory-unsafe languages like C and C++ (there’s a lot more Go and Rust now). And every SIGABRT or crash on any machine results in an email to me and a message to the team responsible. ...
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Most Difficult Two Weeks
2019-02-02
It’s always best to speak plainly and honestly about the situation you are in. Or as Matthew Prince likes to put it “Panic Early”. Long ago I started a company in Silicon Valley which had the most beautiful code. ...
Helping To Build Cloudflare, Part 1: How I came to work here
2019-02-01
I’ve worked at Cloudflare for more than seven years. Cloudflare itself is more than eight years old. So, I’ve been there since it was a very small company. About twenty people in fact. All of those people (except one, me) worked from an office in San Francisco. ...
Introducing the Workers Cache API: Giving you control over how your content is cached
2019-01-25
At Cloudflare, we aim to make the Internet faster and safer for everyone. One way we do this is through caching: we keep a copy of our customer content in our 165 data centers around the world. This brings content closer to users and reduces traffic back to origin servers....
create-cloudflare-worker: Bootstrap your Cloudflare Worker
2019-01-23
At Quintype, we are continually looking for new and innovative ways to use our CDN. Quintype moved to Cloudflare last year, partly because of the power of Cloudflare Workers....
Tracing Soon-to-Expire Federal .gov Certificates with CT Monitors
2019-01-23
As of December 22, 2018, parts of the US Government have “shut down” because of a lapse in appropriation. The shutdown has caused the furlough of employees across the government and has affected federal contracts. ...
Enjoy a slice of QUIC, and Rust!
2019-01-22
During last year’s Birthday Week we announced early support for QUIC, the next generation encrypted-by-default network transport protocol designed to secure and accelerate web traffic on the Internet....
Argo Tunnel + DC/OS
2019-01-21
Cloudflare is proud to partner with Mesosphere on their new Argo Tunnel offering available within their DC/OS (Data Center / Operating System) catalogue! Before diving deeper into the offering itself, we’ll first do a quick overview of the Mesophere platform, DC/OS....
The SamKnows Cloudflare Platform
2019-01-18
At SamKnows, we run lots of tests to measure internet performance. Actually, that’s an understatement. Our software is embedded on tens of millions of devices, and that number grows daily....
One-Click DNSSEC with Cloudflare Registrar
2019-01-16
When you launch your domain to the world, you rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) to direct your users to the address for your site. However, DNS cannot guarantee that your visitors reach your content because DNS, in its basic form, lacks authentication....
How Serverless Platforms are Changing to Enable New Applications (video)
2019-01-15
This talk was originally presented and recorded at Serverless Computing London in November 2018. If you’d like to join us in person to talk about serverless, we’ll be announcing 2019 event locations throughout the year on the docs page....
Upgrading Cloud Infrastructure Made Easier and Safer Using Cloudflare Workers and Workers KV
2019-01-10
At Timely we started a project to migrate our web applications from legacy Azure services to a modern PaaS offering. In theory it meant no code changes. We decided to start with our webhooks. ...
io_submit: The epoll alternative you've never heard about
2019-01-04
The Linux AIO is designed for, well, Asynchronous disk IO! Disk files are not the same thing as network sockets! Is it even possible to use the Linux AIO API with network sockets in the first place? The answer turns out to be a strong YES! ...
Sad start to the new year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2019-01-02
The calendar has barely flipped to 2019 and already we’re seeing Internet disruptions. Today, Cloudflare can quantitatively confirm that Internet access has been shut down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, information already reported by many press organisations....
Improving request debugging in Cloudflare Workers
2018-12-28
As some of you might have already noticed either from our public release notes, on cloudflareworkers.com or in your Cloudflare Workers dashboard, there was a small but important change in the look of the inspector....
Happy Pink Dot SG from the Proudflare team!
2018-12-27
In the little red dot city of Singapore, we celebrated the tenth year of an annual event called, Pink Dot SG, on 21st July 2018. This annual event started in 2009 and was formed as a group for everyone, straight and gay, who support the belief that everyone deserves the "freedom to love"....
Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019
2018-12-25
We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?...
