Using Workers To Make Static Sites Dynamic
2018-08-26
The following is a guest post by Paddy Sherry, Lead Developer at Gambling.com Group. They build performance marketing websites and tools, using Cloudflare to serve to their global audience....
Introducing ebpf_exporter
2018-08-24
Here at Cloudflare we use Prometheus to collect operational metrics. We run it on hundreds of servers and ingest millions of metrics per second to get insight into our network and provide the best possible service to our customers....
Refresh Stale DNS Records on 1.1.1.1
2018-08-21
You can now refresh 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache for domain names by using the purge cache tool. This is useful for domain owners who have updated their DNS records and want to make sure it is reflected for people who are using 1.1.1.1 as their public DNS resolver....
Internet Native Applications
2018-08-21
I grew up with DOS and Windows 3.1. I remember applications being *fast* - instant feedback or close to it. Today, native applications like Outlook or Apple Mail still feel fast - click compose and the window is there instantly and it feels snappy. Internet applications do not....
Integrating redirection.io with Cloudflare Workers
2018-08-21
Redirection.io manages web traffic redirects, offering tools for web admins, SEO agencies, and devs to analyze HTTP errors, set up redirects, customize responses, and monitor traffic efficiently....
How Cloudflare protects customers from cache poisoning
2018-08-20
A few days ago, Cloudflare — along with the rest of the world — learned of a "practical" cache poisoning attack. In this post I’ll walk through the attack and explain how Cloudflare mitigated it for our customers....
Edge-Side-Includes with Cloudflare Workers
2018-08-20
At Cloudflare we’re accelerating web assets in a number of different ways. Part of this is caching, by storing the response given by the origin server directly within our 151+ global data centers....
African traffic growth and predictions for the future
2018-08-19
Looking back at our historical data, we realized how much the Internet and Cloudflare grew. With more than 150 data centers, 10 percent of web-based applications, customers everywhere around the world, from the tiny islands in the Pacific to the big metropolises....
Three new ways teams are using Cloudflare Access
2018-08-15
Since leaving beta three weeks ago, Cloudflare Access has become our fastest-growing subscription service. Every day, more teams are using Access to leave their VPN behind and connect to applications quickly and securely from anywhere in the world....
A Detailed Look at RFC 8446 (a.k.a. TLS 1.3)
2018-08-10
TLS 1.3 (RFC 8446) was published today. This article provides a deep dive into the changes introduced in TLS 1.3 and its impact on the future of internet security....
Optimising Caching on Pwned Passwords (with Workers)
2018-08-09
In February, Troy Hunt unveiled Pwned Passwords v2. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the ...
Use Cloudflare Stream to build secure, reliable video apps
2018-08-07
Cloudflare Stream is the best way for any founder or developer to deliver an extraordinary video experience to their viewers while cutting development time and costs, and as of today it is available to every Cloudflare customer....
Additional Record Types Available with Cloudflare DNS
2018-08-06
Cloudflare recently updated the authoritative DNS service to support nine new record types. Since these records are less commonly used than what we previously supported, we thought it would be a good idea to do a brief explanation of each record type and how it is used....
Growing the Cloudflare Apps Ecosystem
2018-08-02
Starting today we are announcing the availability of two key pilot programs: Cloudflare Apps with Workers and Cloudflare Workers Service Providers. Over the course of past few months we've seen an accelerating interest in Workers....
How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day
2018-07-31
10 million websites, apps and APIs use Cloudflare to give their users a speed boost. At peak we serve more than 10 million requests a second across our 151 data centers. Over the years we’ve made many modifications to our version of NGINX to handle our growth. This is blog post is about one of them....
Minecraft API with Workers + CoffeeScript
2018-07-31
If you've ever played a video game in the past couple of years, chances are you know about Minecraft. You might be familiar with the game or even planted a tree or two, but what you might not know about is the vast number of Minecraft online communities. ...
Q2 FY 18 Product Releases, for a better Internet “end-to-end”
2018-07-26
Product NewsMobile SDKCloudflare WorkersLoad BalancingDevelopersSpectrumRocket LoaderSpeed & ReliabilityCloudflare TunnelDeveloper Platform
In Q2, Cloudflare released several products which enable a better Internet “end-to-end” — from the mobile client to host infrastructure. Now, anyone from an individual developer to large companies and governments, can control, secure, and accelerate their applications from “perimeter” to “host.”...
The Road to QUIC
2018-07-26
QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web....
1.1.1.1 for Your Organization
2018-07-25
Our fast, privacy-centric 1.1.1.1 project can secure your users on the Internet, and you’ll always know that they’ll be the first to benefit from the work of Internet standards bodies like the IETF....