Privacy needs to be built into the Internet
2020-12-07
The Internet was not built for privacy. Welcome to Phase 3 of the Internet: always on, always secure, always private....
Introducing the Cloudflare Data Localization Suite
2020-12-07
The Data Localization Suite helps businesses get the performance and security benefits of Cloudflare’s global network while making it easy to set rules and controls at the edge about where their data is stored and protected....
Welcome to Birthday Week 2020
2020-09-27
Each year we celebrate our launch on September 27, 2010 with a week of product announcements. We call this Birthday Week, but rather than receiving gifts, we give them away. This year is no different, except that it is… Cloudflare is 10 years old....
Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
2020-07-18
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network....
Cloudflare's first year in Lisbon
2020-07-16
We landed in Lisbon with a small team of transplants from other Cloudflare offices. We’ve almost quadrupled in a year and we intend to keep growing to around 80 by the end of 2020....
Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd
2020-06-02
As we’ve often seen in the past, real world protest and violence is usually accompanied by attacks on the Internet. This past week has been no exception. ...
When people pause the Internet goes quiet
2020-05-01
As human behaviour has changed in response to the pandemic, it's left a mark on the charts that network operators look at day in, day out to ensure that their networks are running correctly....
Internet performance during the COVID-19 emergency
2020-04-23
The Internet has shown that it was built for this: designed to handle huge changes in traffic, outages, and a changing mix of use. As we are well into April I thought it was time for an update....
Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL
2020-04-16
COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers....
Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020
2020-04-16
Starting at 1531 UTC and lasting until 1952 UTC, the Cloudflare Dashboard and API were unavailable because of the disconnection of multiple, redundant fibre connections from one of our two core data centers....
Announcing the Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
2020-03-31
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be the new normal. ...
COVID-19 impacts on Internet traffic: Seattle, Northern Italy and South Korea
2020-03-13
The last few weeks have seen unprecedented changes in how people live and work around the world. Over time more and more companies have given their employees the right to work from home, restricted business travel and, in some cases, outright sent their entire workforce home....
Cloudflare’s Gen X: Servers for an Accelerated Future
2020-02-24
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently....
This holiday's biggest online shopping day was... Black Friday
2019-12-24
What’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....
Announcing the CSAM Scanning Tool, Free for All Cloudflare Customers
2019-12-18
Two 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...
Talk Transcript: How Cloudflare Thinks About Security
2019-10-08
This is the text I used for a talk at artificial intelligence powered translation platform, Unbabel, in Lisbon on September 25, 2019....
Cleaning up bad bots (and the climate)
2019-09-23
From the very beginning Cloudflare has been stopping bots from scraping websites, or misusing APIs. Over time we’ve improved our bot detection methods and deployed large machine learning models that are able to distinguish real traffic (be it from humans or apps) from misbehaving bots....
Cloudflare's new Lisbon office
2019-07-17
I was the 24th employee of Cloudflare and the first outside of San Francisco. Working out of my spare bedroom, I wrote a chunk of Cloudflare’s software before starting to recruit a team in London. Today, Cloudflare London, our EMEA headquarters, has more than 200 people. ...
Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019
2019-07-12
Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more. ...
The Network is the Computer: A Conversation with John Gage
2019-07-11
To learn more about the origins of “The Network is the Computer,” I spoke with John Gage, the creator of the phrase and the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems. John had a key role in shaping the vision of Sun and had a lot to share about his vision for the future....