Why does one NGINX worker take all the load?
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Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added. ...
Code Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
September 29, 2017
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It all comes down to the speed of light. It always does. The speed of light limits the latency possible between someone using the Internet and the application they are accessing. ...
Introducing Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
September 29, 2017
You see this everywhere, but as a lifelong gamer, my personal favorite example is probably graphics cards. In the '90s, graphics hardware generally provided a fixed set of functionality. ...
Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices
April 25, 2017
Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’ private data....
Generating Documentation for TypeScript Projects
November 12, 2016
Traditionally, JavaScript docs use code comments. This post explores generating documentation directly from TypeScript source code, a more efficient alternative....
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June 08, 2016
Open Sourcing CloudFlare’s UI Framework
Late last year, the CloudFlare UI team made a huge decision: to change JavaScript frameworks from Backbone & Marionette to React & Redux....
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May 10, 2016
How we built Origin CA: Web Crypto
At CloudFlare we strive to combine features that are simple, secure, and backed by solid technology. The Origin CA is a great example of this. You no longer need to go to a third-party certificate authority to protect the connection between CloudFlare and your origin server....
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April 30, 2015
An introduction to JavaScript-based DDoS
CloudFlare protects millions of websites from online threats. One of the oldest and most pervasive attacks launched against websites is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack....
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December 10, 2013
Ask CloudFlare: How do I make my website faster?
We get asked this question all the time: How do I make my website faster? So, on Thursday, we're holding a webcast to go through our recommendations and also answer your questions live....
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December 12, 2012
CDNJS: The Fastest Javascript Repo on the Web
More than a year ago, Ryan Kirkman and Thomas Davis approached us about a project they were working on. Dubbed CDNJS, the project had a noble goal: make the world's Javascript resources load as fast as possible....
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July 03, 2012
Go at CloudFlare
The other day I blogged here about our new Railgun software that speeds up the back haul between CloudFlare data centers and our clients' servers. At CloudFlare we're using a number of different languages depending on the task....
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March 09, 2012
Come Meet Team CloudFlare at SXSW
CloudFlare has been a big supporter of SXSW. This summer, when the Interactive, Film, and Music festival opened its Panel Picker for submissions, CloudFlare helped keep it online under the flood of ensuing traffic. A bunch of folks from team CloudFlare are headed to Austin....
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October 03, 2011
Combining Javascript & CSS, a Better Way
The conventional wisdom in web performance circles is that you want to combine multiple javascript and CSS files. The reason for this is that there is significant overhead every time you setup a new HTTP request. More requests, more wasted overhead....
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June 18, 2011
An All New (and Improved) AutoMinify
We turned on AutoMinify as a beta feature a while ago, but we weren't particularly happy with it. Originally, we did it the same way everyone else does: we'd request the resource from the origin, serve it unminified on the first load, cache it, and then......
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June 16, 2011
App a Day #13 - CDNJS Selections for Legacy Browser Support
To demonstrate the utility of this open-source repository, today's CloudFlare App is CDNJS Selections, where a click installs the selected JavaScript libraries on your site....
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June 16, 2011
CDNJS: Community Moderated Javascript Libraries + CloudFlare
If you're using a Javascript library, the ideal case is that your visitors arrive on your site with it already stored in their browser's cache. The more sites that use the same URL to reference the library, the more likely it is that it will be cached even for first-time visitors...
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June 15, 2011
App a Day #11 - ExceptionHub for JavaScript Error Tracking
The utility of JavaScript in modern websites increases daily. Whatever the web application, JavaScript is often the answer. But debugging can be a slog, and it's nearly impossible to capture the diversity of web browsers in the real world, no matter how comprehensive your test su...
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May 03, 2011
News From CloudFlare Labs: Javascript Preloader Research
Some of the techniques that CloudFlare uses to make sites faster and safer have generally been around and used by the Internet Giants for some time. In other places, CloudFlare is breaking new ground in offering state-of-the-art technologies to increase performance and security. ...
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