December 06, 2017 2:00 PM
It may (or may not!) come as surprise, but a few months ago we migrated Cloudflare’s edge SSL connection termination stack to use BoringSSL: Google's crypto and SSL implementation that started as a fork of OpenSSL....
December 05, 2017 2:00 PM
It’s ironic that the one thing most programmers would really rather not have to spend time dealing with is... a computer. ...
November 28, 2017 6:00 PM
Since our last newsletter, dozens of developers like you have reached out with ideas for new kinds of apps that weren’t yet possible. ...
November 23, 2017 2:00 AM
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States. It’s a holiday for getting together with family characterized by turkey dinner and whatever it is that happens in American football....
September 29, 2017 1:01 PM
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. ...
September 28, 2017 1:01 PM
I work at a company whose job it is to be attacked. As I’m writing this, an automatic mitigation is fighting two ongoing DDoS attacks. Any machine that’s publicly routable on the internet today can be a vector for attack, and that’s a problem....
September 28, 2017 1:00 PM
In an abstract sense Cloudflare Warp is similar; its connection strategy punches a hole through firewalls and NAT, and provides easy and secure passage for HTTP traffic to your origin. ...
September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it....
September 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Every day, close to 1 billion people watch video through Cloudflare. That’s 100 petabytes of video every month. Last year, video made up 73% of all internet traffic, which is why earlier today we announced Cloudflare Stream....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Today we announced Geo Key Manager, a feature that gives customers control over where their private keys are stored with Cloudflare. This builds on a previous Cloudflare innovation called Keyless SSL and a novel cryptographic access control mechanism....
September 26, 2017 1:00 PM
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors....
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
When building a DDoS mitigation service it’s incredibly tempting to think that the solution is scrubbing centers or scrubbing servers. I, too, thought that was a good idea in the beginning, ...
September 25, 2017 1:00 PM
This is the week of Cloudflare's seventh birthday. It's become a tradition for us to announce a series of products each day of this week and bring major new benefits to our customers. We're beginning with one I'm especially proud of: Unmetered Mitigation....
September 10, 2017 5:04 PM
Since March 30, 2017, Cloudflare has been providing DNS Anycast service as additional F-Root instances under contract with ISC (the F-Root operator). F-Root is a single IPv4 address plus a single IPv6 address which both ISC and Cloudflare announce to the global Internet as a sh...
July 12, 2017 8:24 PM
We recently launched our new Cloudflare Apps platform, and love to see the community it is building. In an effort to help people who run web services such as websites, APIs and more, we would like to help make your web services faster, safer and more reliable....
June 27, 2017 1:00 PM
Today we’re excited to announce the next generation of Cloudflare Apps. Cloudflare Apps is an open platform of tools to build a high quality website....
May 18, 2017 1:00 PM
The Internet is inherently unreliable, a collection of networks connected to each other with fiber optics, copper, microwaves and trust....
May 14, 2017 3:00 PM
Cloudflare's Enterprise customers have been using our Load Balancing service since March, and it has been helping them avoid website downtime caused by unreliable hosting providers, Internet outages, or servers. ...
April 27, 2017 1:00 PM
In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras. We continued to see more IoT devices in DDoS attacks....
