Encrypt that SNI: Firefox edition
2018-10-18
A couple of weeks ago we announced support for the encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension (ESNI for short). As promised, our friends at Mozilla landed support for ESNI in Firefox Nightl. ...
Why I’m helping Cloudflare grow in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
2018-10-18
I am incredibly excited to announce that I’m joining Cloudflare as the Head of DACH to help to expand Cloudflare’s demand in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. ...
My First Grace Hopper Celebration
2018-10-17
A couple of weeks ago I went to Grace Hopper Celebration (#GHC18), and I can still feel the exuberant energy from the 22,000 women over the intensive 3 day conference. ...
A Question of Timing
2018-10-17
When considering website performance, the term TTFB - time to first byte - crops up regularly. Often we see measurements from cURL and Chrome, and this article will show what timings those tools can produce, including time to first byte......
Serverless Rust with Cloudflare Workers
2018-10-16
The Workers team just announced support for WebAssembly (WASM) within Workers. If you saw my post on Internet Native Apps, you'll know that I believe WebAssembly will play a big part in the apps of the future....
DC CyberWeek Is Here!
2018-10-15
This October is the 15th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States, a collaboration between the US government and industry to raise awareness about the part we can all play in staying more secure online....
Optimizing HTTP/2 prioritization with BBR and tcp_notsent_lowat
2018-10-12
Getting the best end-user performance from HTTP/2 requires good support for resource prioritization. While most web servers support HTTP/2 prioritization, getting it to work well all the way to the browser requires a fair bit of coordination across the networking stack....
Happy National Coming Out Day: Stories from Proudflare
2018-10-11
Today is the 30th Anniversary of National Coming Out Day. We wanted to share some coming out stories from members of Proudflare and draw attention to resources the Human Rights Campaign provides to those who are thinking about coming out or wish to be supportive of those who come out to them. ...
Graceful upgrades in Go
2018-10-11
The idea behind graceful upgrades is to swap out the configuration and code of a process while it is running, without anyone noticing it. If this sounds error-prone, dangerous, undesirable and in general a bad idea – I’m with you....
Introducing Single Sign-On for the Cloudflare Dashboard
2018-10-10
As the number of SaaS services people use everyday grows, it has become more challenging to juggle the number of password and multi-factor authentication combinations users have to keep track of to get online. ...
A Tour Inside Cloudflare's G9 Servers
2018-10-10
This is about our latest generation G9 server. From a G4 server comprising of 12 Intel Sandybridge CPU cores, our G9 server has 192 Intel Skylake CPU cores ready to handle today’s load across Cloudflare’s network....
Mapping Factorio with Leaflet
2018-10-10
Factorio is a game about building and maintaining factories. Players mine resources, research new technology and automate production. Resources move along the production line through multiple means of transportation such as belts and trains. ...
Leave your VPN and cURL secure APIs with Cloudflare Access
2018-10-05
We built Access to solve a problem here at Cloudflare: our VPN. Our team members hated the slowness and inconvenience of VPN but, that wasn’t the issue we needed to solve. The security risks posed by a VPN required a better solution....
Announcing Firewall Rules
2018-10-03
Threat landscapes change every second. As attackers evolve, vulnerabilities materialise faster than engineers can patch systems becoming more dynamic and devious. Part of Cloudflare’s mission is to keep you and your applications safe....
Custom Load Balancing With Cloudflare Workers
2018-10-03
Getting lots of traffic? Planning to add more servers? You’ll need load balancing to maintain the reliability of your site. Cloudflare offers powerful Load Balancing, but there are situations where some options can’t satisfy your specific needs. For those situations, you can write your own Worker....
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2018-10-02
Whenever you get into a conversation about exotic travel or ponder visiting the four corners of the globe, inevitably you end up discussing Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. ...
Cloudflare Access: Sharing our single-sign on plugin for Atlassian
2018-10-02
Here at Cloudflare, we rely on a set of productivity tools built by Atlassian, including Jira and Confluence. We secure them with Cloudflare Access. In the past, when our team members wanted to reach those applications, they first logged in with our identity provider credentials to pass Access....
#BetterInternet: Join the Movement
2018-10-02
When it comes to awareness of Cloudflare, it seems most folks fall into one of three camps: 1) those who don’t know much about Cloudflare, 2) those who are familiar with one or two of our solutions, and 3) those who understand the full breadth of Cloudflare’s global cloud network....
Free to code
2018-10-01
This week at the Cloudflare Internet Summit I have the honour of sitting down and talking with Sophie Wilson. She designed the very first ARM processor instruction set in the mid-1980s and was part of the small team that built the foundations for the mobile world we live in....
WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
2018-10-01
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost....
