February 27, 2018
Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet. ...
February 26, 2018
Last week Troy Hunt launched his Pwned Password v2 service which has an API handled and cached by Cloudflare using a clever anonymity scheme. The following simple code can check if a password exists in Troy's database without sending the password to Troy....
February 21, 2018
Both in our real lives, and online, there are times where we need to authenticate ourselves - where we need to confirm we are who we say we are. This can be done using three things....
February 20, 2018
At Cloudflare we like Go. We use it in many in-house software projects as well as parts of bigger pipeline systems. But can we take Go to the next level and use it as a scripting language for our favourite operating system, Linux?...
February 14, 2018
Making core contributions to a qualifying open source project? We want to thank you for your work for the community with a free Pro Plan upgrade....
January 31, 2018
Among other interesting features, Rust has a powerful macro system. Unfortunately, even after reading The Book and various tutorials, when it came to trying to implement a macro which involved processing complex lists of different elements, I still struggled to understand how it ...
January 27, 2018
As a startup founder, there are always key product decisions to be made when Site Search 360, our key product, is embedded in one context versus another. I’d like to share some experiences, choices, and challenges in our process packaging Site Search 360 for Cloudflare Apps....
December 16, 2017
Along with four other Cloudflare colleagues, I traveled to New Haven, CT last weekend to support 1,000+ college students from Yale and beyond at YHack hackathon....
December 11, 2017
Six years ago when I joined Cloudflare the company had a capital F, about 20 employees, and a software stack that was mostly NGINX, PHP and PowerDNS (there was even a little Apache). ...
December 08, 2017
Since joining Cloudflare I’ve always known that as we grew, incredible things would be possible. It’s been a long held ambition to work in an organisation with the scale to answer a very controversial and difficult question. ...
November 28, 2017
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 22, 2017
When our team learned about the opportunity to build an AddThis app on Cloudflare Apps, I was ready to pounce. ...
November 14, 2017
Cloudflare Apps now lists 95 apps from apps which grow email lists to apps which acquire new customers to apps which help site owners make more money. ...
November 13, 2017
Not long ago I needed to benchmark the performance of Golang on a many-core machine. I took several of the benchmarks that are bundled with the Go source code, copied them, and modified them to run on all available threads....
November 10, 2017
If you’re a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza. ...
October 27, 2017
Brady Gentile from Cloudflare's product team wrote an App Developer Playbook, embedded within the developer documentation page. ...
October 25, 2017
Earlier this year, Cloudflare Apps was launched so app developers may leverage our global network of 6 million+ websites, applications, and APIs. ...
October 23, 2017
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. ...
October 19, 2017
Programming language Virtual Machines (VMs) are familiar beasts: we use them to run apps on our phone, code inside our browsers, and programs on our servers. ...
