An Explanation of the Meltdown/Spectre Bugs for a Non-Technical Audience
Last week the news of two significant computer bugs was announced. They've been dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These bugs take advantage of very technical systems that modern CPUs have implemented to...
View ArticleWelcome Salt Lake City and Get Ready for a Massive Expansion
We just turned up Salt Lake City, Utah — Cloudflare's 120th data center. Salt Lake holds a special place in Cloudflare's history. I grew up in the region and still have family there. Back in 2004, Lee...
View ArticleSYN packet handling in the wild
Here at Cloudflare, we have a lot of experience of operating servers on the wild Internet. But we are always improving our mastery of this black art. On this very blog we have touched on multiple dark...
View ArticleIntroducing Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, But You Don’t Have To Be A...
Tell me if this sounds familiar: any connection from inside the corporate network is trusted and any connection from the outside is not. This is the security strategy used by most enterprises today....
View ArticleHowever improbable: The story of a processor bug
Processor problems have been in the news lately, due to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. But generally, engineers writing software assume that computer hardware operates in a reliable,...
View ArticleDeprecating SPDY
Democratizing the Internet and making new features available to all Cloudflare customers is a core part of what we do. We're proud to be early adopters and have a long record of adopting new standards...
View ArticleSYN 패킷 처리 실제
이 글은 Marek Majkowski가 쓴 최근 글의 번역입니다. 우리 Cloudflare는 실제 인터넷상의 서버 운영 경험이 많지만 이런 흑마술 수련도 게을리하지 않습니다. 이 블로그에서는 인터넷 프로토콜의 여러 어두운 부분을 다룬 적이 있습니다: understanding FIN-WAIT-2 나 receive buffer tuning과 같은 것들입니다....
View ArticleWeb Cache Deception Attack revisited
In April, we wrote about Web Cache Deception attacks, and how our customers can avoid them using origin configuration. Read that blog post to learn about how to configure your website, and for those...
View ArticleLarge drop in traffic from the Democratic Republic of Congo
It is not uncommon for countries around the world to interrupt Internet access for political reasons or because of social unrest. We've seen this many times in the past (e.g. Gabon, Syria, Togo)....
View ArticleLessons learned from adapting Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps
This is a guest post by David Urbansky, CEO and Co-Founder of SEMKNOX and Site Search 360. David is a search enthusiast having built natural language search experiences for e-commerce sites and recipe...
View ArticleSEO Performance in 2018 Using Cloudflare
For some businesses SEO is a bad word, and for good reason. Google and other search engines keep their algorithms a well-guarded secret making SEO implementation not unlike playing a game where the...
View ArticleWriting complex macros in Rust: Reverse Polish Notation
(This is a crosspost of a tutorial originally published on my personal blog) Among other interesting features, Rust has a powerful macro system. Unfortunately, even after reading The Book and various...
View ArticleCloudflare Workers is now on Open Beta
Cloudflare Workers Beta is now open! Cloudflare Workers lets you run JavaScript on Cloudflare’s edge, deploying globally to over 120+ data centers around the world in less than 30 seconds. Your code...
View ArticleComing soon to a university near you
Attention software engineering students: Cloudflare is coming to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and we want to meet you! We will be attending...
View ArticleHow we made our page-load optimisations even faster
In 2017 we made two of our web optimisation products - Mirage and Rocket Loader - even faster! Combined, these products speed up around 1.2 billion web-pages a week. The products are both around 5...
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