Less Is More - Why The IPv6 Switch Is Missing
At Cloudflare we believe in being good to the Internet and good to our customers. By moving on from the legacy world of IPv4-only to the modern-day world where IPv4 and IPv6 are treated equally, we...
View ArticleCounting things, a lot of different things…
Back in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Cloudflare Geo Key Manager
Cloudflare’s customers recognize that they need to protect the confidentiality and integrity of communications with their web visitors. The widely accepted solution to this problem is to use the...
View ArticleGeo Key Manager: How It Works
Today we announced Geo Key Manager, a feature that gives customers unprecedented control over where their private keys are stored when uploaded to Cloudflare. This feature builds on a previous...
View ArticleHow Cloudflare Streams
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...
View ArticleIntroducing Cloudflare Stream: Fixing the Streaming Video Market
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...
View ArticleDown the Rabbit Hole: The Making of Cloudflare Warp
In the real world, tunnels are often carved out from the mass of something bigger - a hill, the ground, but also man-made structures. CC BY-SA 2.0 image by Matt Brown In an abstract sense Cloudflare...
View ArticleIntroducing Cloudflare Warp: Hide Behind The Edge
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...
View ArticleCloudflare Apps Platform Update: September Edition
This is the September edition of our blog series showcasing the latest platform improvements in developer analytics, user feedback, release notes, and more! Since launch, we’ve received hundreds of...
View ArticleIntroducing Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
TL;DR: You'll soon be able to deploy JavaScript to Cloudflare's edge, written against an API similar to Service Workers. Try writing a Worker in the playground » Introduction Every technology, when...
View ArticleCode Everywhere: Why We Built Cloudflare Workers
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. It doesn’t matter if...
View ArticleA New Cybersecurity Strategy for Europe
October is European Cybersecurity Month, an annual advocacy campaign to raise awareness of cyber risks among citizens and businesses, and to share best practices in cybersecurity. This year’s campaign...
View ArticleGo Hack Nights at Cloudflare
At Cloudflare we're extensively using the Go programming language to build a better Internet. Go is a free and open source programming language created by Google in 2007 and open sourced in 2009....
View ArticleWHOIS going to be at the Grace Hopper Celebration?
Ubuntu us are doing the round trip! It’s time to live - WAN you arrive at GHC, come meet us and say HELO (we love GNU faces, we’ll be very api to meet you). When you’re exhausted like IPv4, git over to...
View ArticleDobar dan, Hrvatska! Announcing Cloudflare's Zagreb Data Center
Fire the Gric Cannon! Hot on the heels of several birthday week product announcements, we continue to expand our global network. Cloudflare is excited to announce the launch of our newest data center...
View ArticleA Fast, Secure Migration to Google Cloud Platform using Cloudflare
OnAir Video Presentation Abstract Looking to host your website, application, or API in the cloud, or migrate to a new cloud provider while keeping your data secure? In this webinar, Trey Guinn, Head of...
View ArticleCloudflare London Meetup Recap
Cloudflare helps make over 6 million websites faster and more secure. In doing so, Cloudflare has a vast and diverse community of users throughout the world. Whether discussing Cloudflare on social...
View ArticleA Celebration of Learning at Grace Hopper
Photo by Cloudflare Staff Over the course of my career, I’ve been to many conferences, interacted with thousands of candidates, and attended countless keynotes, roundtables, and sessions. I can say...
View ArticleHelping to make LuaJIT faster
This is a guest post by Laurence Tratt, who is a programmer and Reader in Software Development in the Department of Informatics at King's College London where he leads the Software Development Team. He...
View ArticlePerforming & Preventing SSL Stripping: A Plain-English Primer
Over the past few days we learnt about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks. The KRACK Attack effectively allows interception...
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