Ten new data centers: Cloudflare expands global network to 165 cities
2018-12-20
Cloudflare is excited to announce the addition of ten new data centers across the United States, Bahrain, Russia, Vietnam, Pakistan and France (Reunion). ...
Banking-Grade Credential Stuffing: The Futility of Partial Password Validation
2018-12-20
Recently when logging into one of my credit card providers, I was greeted by a familiar screen. After entering in my username, the service asked me to supply 3 random characters from my password to validate ownership of my account....
Cloudworker - A local Cloudflare Worker Runner
2018-12-19
At Dollar Shave Club, we continuously look for ways to improve how we build and ship code. Improving the time it takes for engineers to ship code is key. Providing engineers with a development environment that closely mirrors production really helps....
Real World Serverless: Serverless Use Cases and Best Practices
2018-12-17
Cloudflare Workers has had a very busy 2018. Throughout the year, Workers moved from beta to general availability, continued to expand its footprint as Cloudflare grew to 155 locations, and added new features and services to help developers create increasingly advanced applications....
Managing DNS Records For The People With Cloudflare Apps
2018-12-14
DNS records are hard. Many people, even the technically competent, don’t bother to learn more than the basics. Let Cloudflare Apps manage them for you....
Traffic Acceleration with Cloudflare Mobile SDK
2018-12-13
We’re excited to announce early access for Traffic Acceleration with Cloudflare Mobile SDK. Enabling Acceleration through the SDK reduces latency, increases throughput, and improves app user experiences....
How my team wrote 12 Cloudflare apps with fewer than 20 lines of code
2018-12-13
I like my code the same way I like my team of POWr Rangers… DRY. And no, I don’t mean dull and unexciting! (If you haven’t heard this acronym before, DRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself)...
More consistent LuaJIT performance
2018-12-12
A year ago I wrote about a project that Cloudflare were funding at King's College London to help improve LuaJIT. Our twelve months is now up. How did we do? ...
OAuth Auth Server through Workers
2018-12-11
Services need to talk to each other safely without inconveniencing users. Let’s pretend I own a service with users and I want to grant other services access to my service on behalf of my users. ...
The truth about Black Friday and Cyber Monday
2018-12-11
Something we all see and hear a lot about at this time of year are Black Friday (23 November this year) and Cyber Monday (26 November) - but just how important are these days on the Internet?...
A new look on your Cloudflare dashboard
2018-12-11
Building a great customer experience is a top priority here at Cloudflare. Over the last week, we have been slowly rolling out an improvement to our customer dashboard - specifically the zone overview page. We are now ready to share the new dashboard with everyone. ...
EU Terrorist Content Online proposal – political haste and unintended consequences
2018-12-04
In September, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal to address the removal of terrorist content online. ...
How well do you know website performance?
2018-12-04
How quickly did this blog post load? Did you happen to notice? Most website visitors do notice that sort of thing, even if they don't realize it consciously. In fact, virtually all visitors have strong opinions about how quickly a website should load....
Cloudflare Apps Fund 2.0
2018-11-30
Today we are launching the second iteration of the Cloudflare App Developer Fund. This is an investment fund started in partnership with Venrock, Pelion Venture Partners, and New Enterprise Associates....
Logs from the Edge
2018-11-29
With Cloudflare Workers, it is possible to send traffic logs to arbitrary locations. In this post we are going to discuss an example Worker implementation on how to achieve this. So if you are building or maintaining your own traffic logging/analytics environment, read on....
Know your SCM_RIGHTS
2018-11-29
As TLS 1.3 was ratified earlier this year, I was recollecting how we got started with it here at Cloudflare. We made the decision to be early adopters of TLS 1.3 a little over two years ago. It was a very important decision, and we took it very seriously....
L4Drop: XDP DDoS Mitigations
2018-11-28
Efficient packet dropping is a key part of Cloudflare’s distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigations. In this post, we introduce a new tool in our packet dropping arsenal: L4Drop....
Working out Backend Knots and Building Routers (Austin Real World Serverless Video Recap)
2018-11-25
Our Austin Real World Serverless event (in partnership with the ATX Serverless User Group Meetup) included two talks about Serverless technology featuring Victoria Bernard and Preston Pham from Cloudflare. ...
My Second Cloudflare Company Retreat
2018-11-24
Last week, 760 humans of Singapore, London, Beijing, Sydney, Nairobi, Austin, New York, Miami, Washington DC, Warsaw, Munich, Brussels, and Champaign reunited with their San Francisco counterparts for our 9th annual Cloudflare company retreat in the Bay Area....
Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
2018-11-23
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time....
