Introducing Partner Analytics
2015-07-23
CloudFlare has over 5,000 hosting provider partners. Every day, thousands of our partners' customers take advantage of CloudFlare to help them be faster and more secure....
Célébrer le 14 Juillet avec Marseille, le 36ème point de présence de CloudFlare
2015-07-14
What better day than the 14th of July (Bastille Day) to announce the latest addition to our network in Marseille, France? Our data center in the southern city of Marseille is our 2nd in France, 12th in Europe and 36th globally....
CloudFlare Lands a New Office in Singapore
2015-07-14
After months of preparation, my teammates Algin, Marty, Adam, Jono and I touched down in Singapore and were greeted by skyscrapers, malls, Singlish, chili crab, and Marty’s special sweet and sour chicken. It immediately hit us that we were no longer in San Francisco....
Fighting Cancer: The Unexpected Benefit Of Open Sourcing Our Code
2015-07-08
Recently I was contacted by Dr. Igor Kozin from The Institute of Cancer Research in London. He asked about the optimal way to compile CloudFlare's open source fork of zlib....
Increasing Cache Hit Rates with Query String Sort
2015-07-07
At CloudFlare, we care a lot about serving requests as fast as possible. Files can be served much faster when already in CloudFlare’s cache....
The Internet is a cooperative system: CNAME to Dyn DNS outage of 6 July 2015
2015-07-06
Today, shortly after 21:00 UTC, on our internal operations chat there was a scary message from one of our senior support staff: "getting DNS resolution errors on support.cloudflare.com", at the same time as automated monitoring indicated a problem....
Blue Light Special: Ensuring fast global configuration changes
2015-07-03
CloudFlare operates a huge global network of servers that proxy our customers' web sites, operate as caches, inspect requests to ensure they are not malicious, deflect DDoS attacks and handle one of the largest authoritative DNS systems in the world. ...
Welcome UK2 Group!
2015-07-01
Today we are thrilled to welcome UK2 Group as a CloudFlare partner. Customers of UK2 Group (including its brands UK2.net, Midphase, and Westhost) are now able to access CloudFlare’s web performance and security solutions with a single click....
Setting Go variables from the outside
2015-07-01
CloudFlare's DNS server, RRDNS, is written in Go and the DNS team used to generate a file called version.go in our Makefile. version.go looked something like this....
How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
2015-06-30
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs. ...
Check out these brand new videos on how to optimize CloudFlare
2015-06-24
Someone once said that the best things in life are free and I can’t agree more. I want to draw the attention of the CloudFlare community to a great resource that helps maximize the value of our product. ...
How to build your own public key infrastructure
2015-06-24
A major part of securing a network as geographically diverse as CloudFlare’s is protecting data as it travels between datacenters. Customer data and logs are important to protect but so is all the control data that our applications use to communicate with each other. ...
Osaka, Japan: CloudFlare's 35th Data Center
2015-06-22
Move over Jurassic World, the long awaited sequel to our Tokyo deployment is here. Our Osaka data center is our 2nd in Japan, 5th in Asia (following deployments in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, and Seoul), and 35th globally. ...
EFF, CloudFlare Ask Federal Court Not To Force Internet Companies To Enforce Music Labels’ Trademarks
2015-06-19
This month, CloudFlare and EFF pushed back against major music labels’ latest strategy to force Internet infrastructure companies like CloudFlare to become trademark and copyright enforcers, by challenging a broad court order that the labels obtained in secret....
Go has a debugger—and it's awesome!
2015-06-18
Something that often, uh... bugs Go developers is the lack of a proper debugger. Builds are ridiculously fast and easy, but sometimes it would be nice to just set a breakpoint and step through that endless if chain or print a bunch of values without recompiling ten times....
How to receive a million packets per second
2015-06-16
Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: "The Linux network stack is slow! You can't expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!"...
iOS Developers — Migrate to iOS 9 with CloudFlare
2015-06-11
Thousands of developers use CloudFlare to accelerate and secure the backend of their mobile applications and websites. This week is WWDC, where thousands of Apple developers come to San Francisco to talk, learn and share best practices for developing software for Apple platforms. ...
Four years later and CloudFlare is still doing IPv6 automatically
2015-06-05
Over the past four years CloudFlare has helped well over two million websites join the modern web, making us one of the fastest growing providers of IPv6 web connectivity on the Internet. ...
Welcome Acquia!
2015-05-21
We’ve had the good fortune to share many great experiences with the Acquia team over the last few years. From breaking bread with founder and CTO Dries Buytaert at SXSW, to staying up late with their incredible team onboarding a joint customer under a DDoS attack. ...
Logjam: the latest TLS vulnerability explained
2015-05-20
Yesterday, a group from INRIA, Microsoft Research, Johns Hopkins, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania published a deep analysis of the Diffie-Hellman algorithm as used in TLS and other protocols. ...