Programming

May 06, 2021 1:00 PM

Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that......

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• Marek Majkowski

April 02, 2021 11:00 AM

Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations....

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• Ignat Korchagin

March 02, 2021 12:00 PM

Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way....

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• Ignat Korchagin

October 27, 2020 12:00 PM

A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor....

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• Lennart Espe

September 18, 2020 11:00 AM

SYN-cookies help mitigating SYN-floods for TCP, but how can we protect services from similar attacks that use UDP? We designed an algorithm and a library to fill this gap, and it’s open source!...

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• Jonas Otten

March 02, 2020 1:00 PM

Last month finally I had an opportunity to use Bloom filters. I became fascinated with the promise of this data structure, but I quickly realized it had some drawbacks. This blog post is the tale of my brief love affair with Bloom filters....

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• Marek Majkowski

June 24, 2019 1:00 PM

Cloudflare is organizing a meetup in Seattle on Tuesday, June 25th and we hope you can join. We’ll be bringing together members of the developers community and Cloudflare users for an evening of discussion about serverless compute and the infinite number of use cases for deployin...

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• Giuliana DeAngelis

June 17, 2019 1:00 PM

Generating random outcomes is an essential part of everyday life; from lottery drawings and constructing competitions, to performing deep cryptographic computations. ...

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• Alex Davidson

May 21, 2019 1:30 PM

In this tutorial, we’ll build a todo list application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a twist: all the data should be stored inside of the newly-launched Workers KV, and the application itself should be served directly from Cloudflare’s edge network, using Cloudflare Workers....

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• Kristian Freeman

May 21, 2019 1:00 PM

Today, we’re excited to announce Workers KV is entering general availability and is ready for production use!...

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• Ashcon Partovi

May 18, 2019 3:00 PM

Recently at I gave a short talk titled "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk....

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• Marek Majkowski

May 03, 2019 1:00 PM

It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those? ...

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• Jakub Sitnicki

April 24, 2019 6:21 PM

Our servers manage heaps of network packets, from legit traffic to big DDoS attacks. For top efficiency, we adopted eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel tool for swift, low-level packet handling....

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• Arthur Fabre

April 19, 2019 1:00 PM

You’ve had a chance to build a Cloudflare Worker. You’ve tried KV Storage and have a great use case for your Worker. You’ve even demonstrated the usefulness to your product or organization. ...

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• Jonathan Spies

March 27, 2019 1:43 PM

Today we are happy to release the source code of a project we’ve been working on for the past few months. It is called BoringTun, and is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard® protocol written in Rust....

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• Vlad Krasnov