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 pros and cons of subdirectories vs subdomains were discussed. The subdirectory strategy is typically superior to subdomains since 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
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
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. ...
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....
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....
