Offer of Assistance to Governments During COVID-19
2020-04-15
During the spread of COVID-19, Cloudflare is offering free services to government agencies around the world to help them stay online and provide essential information to the public....
Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
2020-04-14
We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users....
Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft
2020-04-13
Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans....
Helping sites get back online: the origin monitoring intern project
2020-04-13
Over the course of ten weeks, our team of three interns (two engineering, one product management) went from a problem statement to a new feature, which is still working in production for all Cloudflare customers....
Remote work, regional lockdowns and migration of Internet usage
2020-04-11
As a large portion of Internet access shifted from office-focused areas, like city centers and business parks, towards more residential areas like suburbs and outlying towns, we wanted to find out just precisely how broad this geographical traffic migration was. ...
Rolling With The Punches: Shifting Attack Tactics & Dropping Packets Faster & Cheaper At The Edge
2020-04-10
Over the past 6 months, volumetric DDoS attacks decreased by 82%. However volumetric attacks are not gone yet, still peaking as high as 418 Gbps. In this post, we cover the changing attack landscape and how Cloudflare adapts and evolves to keep the internet safe....
Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer
2020-04-09
Back in the summer of 2017 I was an intern at Cloudflare. During the scholastic year I was a grad student working on automorphic forms and computational Langlands at Berkeley....
Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
2020-04-08
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail....
How To Use 1.1.1.1 w/ WARP App And Cloudflare Gateway To Protect Your Phone From Security Threats
2020-04-08
Starting today, you can get even more out of your 1.1.1.1 app. By adding Cloudflare Gateway’s secure DNS filtering to your 1.1.1.1 app, you can add a layer of security and block malicious domains flagged as phishing, command and control, or spam....
Project Crossbow: Lessons from Refactoring a Large-Scale Internal Tool
2020-04-07
Crossbow is a tool that is now allowing Cloudflare’s Technical Support Engineers to perform diagnostic activities from running commands (like traceroutes, cURL requests and DNS queries) to debugging product features and performance features using bespoke tools....
Conntrack tales - one thousand and one flows
2020-04-06
We were wondering - can we just enable Linux "conntrack"? How does it actually work? I volunteered to help the team understand the dark corners of the Linux's "conntrack" stateful firewall subsystem....
The Serverlist: Built with Workers, Single-Tenant Architecture, and more!
2020-04-04
Check out our fourteenth 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....
Trailblazing a Development Environment for Workers
2020-04-03
When I arrived at Cloudflare for an internship in the summer of 2018, I was taken on a tour, introduced to my mentor who took me out for coffee (shoutout to Preston), and given a quick whiteboard overview of how Cloudflare works....
Cloudflare Doubling Size of 2020 Summer Intern Class
2020-04-02
Today we are announcing that we will double the size of Cloudflare’s summer 2020 internship class....
The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
2020-04-02
Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've done to fix it....
Announcing the Beta for WARP for macOS and Windows
2020-04-01
While WARP started as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app, it's really a technology that can benefit any device connected to the Internet. In fact, one of the most common requests we've gotten over the last year is support for WARP for macOS and Windows. Today we're announcing exactly that....
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families
2020-04-01
Introducing 1.1.1.1 for Families — the easiest way to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content. ...
Cloudflare now supports security keys with Web Authentication (WebAuthn)!
2020-04-01
We’re excited to announce that Cloudflare now supports security keys as a two factor authentication (2FA) method for all users....
Announcing the Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
2020-03-31
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be the new normal. ...
Introducing Quicksilver: Configuration Distribution at Internet Scale
2020-03-30
At peak, Cloudflare’s network processes more than 14 million HTTP requests per second. We spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use to make those requests faster and more secure....
