2019-05-20
It’s election season in Europe, as European Parliament seats are contested across the European Union by national political parties. With approximately 400 million people eligible to vote, this is one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world. ...
2019-05-18
Recently at I gave a short talk titled "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk....
2019-05-18
Are you based in Moscow? Cloudflare is partnering with Yandex to produce a meetup this month in Yandex's Moscow headquarters. We would love to invite you to join us to learn about the newest in the Internet industry. ...
2019-05-17
BinaryAST is a new over-the-wire format for JavaScript that aims to speed up parsing while keeping the semantics of the original JavaScript intact....
2019-05-16
Today we’re excited to introduce Concurrent Streaming Acceleration, a new technique for reducing the end-to-end latency of live video on the web when using Stream Delivery....
2019-05-15
In the past three years, the amount of image data on the median mobile webpage has doubled. Growing images translate directly to users hitting data transfer caps, experiencing slower websites, and even leaving if a website doesn’t load in a reasonable amount of time. ...
2019-05-14
Image-optimized HTTP/2 multiplexing makes all progressive images across the page appear visually complete in half of the time....
2019-05-14
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a differenc...
2019-05-13
Today, we are announcing a faster, smarter Argo. One that leverages richer data sets, smarter routing algorithms, and under the hood advancements to deliver a faster-than-ever experience to end users. ...
2019-05-13
Every year, we celebrate Cloudflare’s birthday in September when we announce products we’re releasing to help make the Internet better for everyone. We build new and innovative products throughout the year, and having to pick five announcements for just one week of the year is always challenging....
2019-05-03
It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those? ...
2019-05-02
We recently wrote about unit testing Cloudflare Workers within a mock environment using CloudWorker (a Node.js based mock Cloudflare Worker environment created by Dollar Shave Club's engineering team). See Unit Testing Worker Functions....
2019-04-26
Check out our 4th edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend....
2019-04-25
As a fast-growing engineering organization, ownership of services changes fairly frequently. Many cycles get burned in chat with questions like "Who owns service x now?...
2019-04-25
Cloudflare recently moved to County Hall, the building just behind the London Eye. We have a very large event space which we would love to open up to the developer community. If you are involved with a technical meetup, we'd love to host you....
2019-04-24
Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling....
2019-04-23
Power is the precursor to all modern technology. James Watt’s steam engine energized the factory, Edison and Tesla’s inventions powered street lamps, and now both fossil fuels and renewable resources power the trillions of transistors in computers and phones....
2019-04-19
You’ve had a chance to build a Cloudflare Worker. You’ve tried KV Storage and have a great use case for your Worker. You’ve even demonstrated the usefulness to your product or organization. ...
2019-04-17
The promise of the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project was that it would make the web, and, in particular, the mobile web, much more pleasant to surf. The AMP HTML framework was designed to make web pages load quickly....
2019-04-10
Don’t tell our CEO, Matthew Prince, but the first day I interviewed at Cloudflare I had a $9.00 phone in my pocket, a knock-off similar to a Nokia 5140, but the UI was all in Chinese characters—that phone was a fitting symbol for my technical prowess. ...
