2024-11-07

NIST has standardized four post-quantum signature schemes so far, and they’re not done yet: there are fourteen new candidates in the running for standardization....

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  Bas Westerbaan
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  Luke Valenta

2024-11-06

Election Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well...

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  João Tomé
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  Jocelyn Woolbright

2024-10-31

Workers Builds, an integrated CI/CD pipeline for the Workers platform, recently launched in open beta. We walk through how we built this product on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform....

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  Serena Shah-Simpson
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  Jacob Hands
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  Natalie Rogers

2024-10-31

Post-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network. ...

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  Boris Tane

2024-10-30

On October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage....

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  Bryton Herdes
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  David Belson
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  Tanner Ryan

2024-10-29

DNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....

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  Alex Fattouche
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  Corey Horton

2024-10-29

The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. ...

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  David Belson

2024-10-25

Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels....

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  Andrew Repp
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  Emilio Assunção
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  Abhishek Chanda

2024-10-24

Cloudflare Workflows is now in open beta! Workflows allows you to build reliable, repeatable, long-lived multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state, and scale out. Read on to learn how Workflows works, how we built it on top of Durable Objects, and how you can deploy your first Workflows application....

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  Sid Chatterjee
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  Matt Silverlock
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  Celso Martinho

2024-10-24

How we scaled AI Gateway to handle and store billions of requests, using Cloudflare Workers, D1, Durable Objects, and R2....

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  Catarina Pires Mota
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  Gabriel Massadas
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  Nelson Duarte

2024-10-24

Learn how we built Cloudflare Queues using our own Developer Platform and how it evolved to a geographically-distributed, horizontally-scalable architecture built on Durable Objects. Our new architecture supports over 10x more throughput and over 3x lower latency compared to the previous version....

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  Josh Wheeler
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  Siddhant Sinha
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  Todd Mantell
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  Pranshu Maheshwari

2024-10-23

The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY....

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  Omer Yoachimik
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  Jorge Pacheco

2024-10-23

Access for Infrastructure, BastionZero’s integration into Cloudflare One, will enable organizations to apply Zero Trust controls to their servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and more. Today we’re announcing short-lived SSH access as the first available feature of this integration. ...

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  Sharon Goldberg
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  Ann Ming Samborski
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  Sebby Lipman

2024-10-23

In this post we will describe how we use anomaly detection to watch for novel DDoS attacks. We’ll provide an overview of how we build models which flag unusual traffic and keep our customers safe....

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  Nick Wood
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  Manish Arora

2024-10-22

Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet....

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  Nnamdi Ajah
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  Ryan Chow
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  Giovanni Pereira Zantedeschi

2024-10-22

Cloudflare's Vectorize is now generally available, offering faster responses, lower pricing, a free tier, and supporting up to 5 million vectors....

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  Jérôme Schneider
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  Alex Graham

2024-10-17

Hono is a web framework that is fast, lightweight, and built using the Web Standards API. Hear the story of Hono by the creator of Hono....

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  Yusuke Wada

2024-10-15

Cloudflare’s Gen 12 server is the most powerful and power efficient server that we have deployed to date. Through sensitivity analysis, we found that Cloudflare workloads continue to scale with higher core count and higher CPU frequency, as well as achieving a significant boost in performance with larger L3 cache per core....

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  JQ Lau
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  Syona Sarma

2024-10-15

Uphold Zero Trust principles and protect against identity-based attacks by sharing Cloudflare user risk scores with Okta. Learn how this new integration allows your organization to mitigate risk in real time, make informed access decisions, and free up security resources with automation....

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  Noelle Kagan
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  Andrew Meyer
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  James Chang
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  Gavin Chen
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  Matt Davis

2024-10-10

I am thrilled to embark on this journey to run Product and Engineering at Cloudflare, driving forward the mission of helping build a better Internet. ...

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  CJ Desai