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Cloudflare Is reducing the environmental impact of web searches with 20+ billions crawler hints delivered so far. This blog describes the technical solution of how we built the Crawler Hints system that makes all this possible.
Between Google Chrome experimenting with “following” sites, along with a growing frustration of how social media platforms limit a creator’s reach to their
Ain't this the truth:
Commercial integration tools are a couple decades old now, but there has been little in the way of overarching architectural principles describing when and how to use them. In this article, I argue that “buy” decision mechanics have caused us to exaggerate the value proposition of such tools, often leading to mandates to use a certain integration tool over a general purpose language. I claim that
Bulk Redirects is a new product that allows an administrator to upload and enable hundreds of thousands of URL redirects within minutes, without having to write a single line of code.
Amazon has a vision with AWS Amplify. First, a premise:
Josh's Shadow Palette Generator is a fantastic tool. The premise is that box-shadow pretty much always looks better when there are multiple layered shadows
So what is the one thing that people can do is to make their website better? To answer that, let's take a step back in time …
Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum to spread awareness of developers’ initiatives and public policy interests.
Shopify Data built a real-time buyer signal data pipeline to show relevant customer information to merchants while they’re chatting with their customers.
We know that notifications are incredibly important to our customers. Cloudflare sits in between your Internet property and the rest of the world. When something goes wrong, you want to know right away because it could have a huge impact on your end users.
Today we are announcing secure domain registrations bundled into enterprise contracts.
Cloudflare One partners with Microsoft to optimize user connectivity to Microsoft 365
Precise code navigation is powered by stack graphs, a new open source framework that lets you define the name binding rules for a programming language.
Safely browse risky and sensitive websites on any device without installing any software
To help identify and mitigate supply chain attacks in the context of web applications, today we are launching Page Shield in General Availability (GA).
I’ve built websites that are used by millions of people all over the world. I’ve made more mistakes than I care to count and I’ve had to deal with the
There is a huge and ever-widening gap between the devices we use to make the web and the devices most people use to consume it. It’s also no secret
Today, we’re excited to announce new capabilities to help customers make the switch from hardware firewall appliances to a true cloud-native firewall built for next-generation networks.
Cloudflare One helps enterprises build modern enterprise networks, operate efficiently and securely, and throw out on-premise hardware.
Today, we're excited to announce support for IPsec as an on-ramp to Cloudflare One.
As I write this, world leaders are gathering in Glasgow for COP26, the international climate change conference, in the attempt to halt (or at least slow down)
This lesser-known OWASP project aims to help developers prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place.
How to use dig
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend.
John James Jacoby:
The end of the year is getting closer, and our communities are busy working away on their projects. While you’ve all been busy maintaining open source projects and shipping releases,…
Over 70% of the files uploaded on Slack are images, and over 75% of those images are screenshots. What this tells us is that though images are ephemeral, screenshots are often used as a quick way to provide extra detail and context, and typically gain a high level of engagement over a short time period.…
What is one thing people can do to make their website better?
In nature, no two things are ever the same. Life is imperfect, unpredictable, and beautiful. We can walk through the same forest every day and see differently
TL;DR For 2021 Wrapped, we were challenged to visually express a user’s based on how they listened this year. I like to think of it like this: if your music listening data became a person and walked down the street to the neighborhood aura reader, what would that person’s aura look like? That’s the 2021 Wrapped Audio Aura story.
November comes, the temperatures start to get colder for most of the planet's population (87% live in the Northern Hemisphere) and many are also starting to prepare for the festive season.
Cloudinary (the media hosting and optimization service) has a brand new version (v3) of its WordPress plugin that has really nailed it. First, a high-level
This article is part of our “Advanced Git” series. Be sure to follow us on Twitter or sign up for our newsletter to hear about future articles!
Are you a student in India? Applications are open for the GitHub Externships Winter Cohort!
In this episode, we’re asking if changes to best practises over the last year have negatively impacted the web. Is it all downhill from here? Drew McLellan talks to expert Chris Ferdinandi to find out.
Let’s welcome December with some new wallpapers! Designed by artists and designers from across the globe, they are available with and without a calendar for the month. All wallpapers in this post are created with love and come in versions with and without a calendar for December 2021. Enjoy!
DRY your Actions configuration with reusable workflows (and more!)
Global in-person events are back. We present a few ideas from Web Summit 2021 about the future and where the Internet is going. Check the interviews we’ve done at the event (from the lack of Internet access to Web3).
Instead of spending your coffee break scrolling through your social feeds, how about a lovely little website instead? We came across some fantastic ones that are just too good not to be shared. They are perfect for a short coffee break or whenever you’re up for a little bit of diversion. But be warned, your break might take a bit longer than intended.
Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is
People living in Burkina Faso are facing an Internet shutdown. Cloudflare Radar shows that after 22:00 UTC (the same local time) Internet traffic went down significantly, something that has happened in the context of social tensions in the country that started on November 14, 2021.
The Internet started to come back to Sudan (with limitations) this past Thursday, November 18. This happens after 25 days (three weeks and four days) of an almost complete shutdown that affected the whole country.
One of the most exciting things about serverless is not that you can now build everything in serverless, but that it becomes really easy to connect multiple managed services. Tejas Mehta built cClip by connecting services like RevenueCat, Stripe and Firebase into a fully fledged product.
We are developing an example feature-complete SaaS application that will be built entirely on the Cloudflare stack.
A recap of all the GitHub Education news from Universe 2021, including the new Intro to Web Dev Experience.
Workers is now even more Unbound, with no egress, more execution time, and more scripts.
The Cloudflare Developer Expert Program rewards developers who build on Cloudflare
Two months ago we launched Cloudflare Images for everyone and we are amazed about the adoption and the feedback we received. Today we are announcing AVIF and Blur support for Cloudflare Images and give you a preview of the upcoming functionality.
Jacob operates TriTails Premium Beef, an online store for meat, a very perishable good. So he has a unique set of challenges with shipping. As a developer, he turned to Airtable and Cloudflare Workers to automate large parts of the process to be able to deal with their rapid growth.
Dealing with dates and times is one of those things that can frustrate programmers a lot. At the same time, they are fundamental to software development, used
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
Full-stack support for Cloudflare Pages is now in open beta, and you can test it today with this example image-sharing project that integrates with KV, Durable Objects, Cloudflare Images and Cloudflare Access.
Cloudflare Pages partners up with some of the biggest headless CMSs
Cloudflare Pages partners up with GitLab for full git integration.
In part 5 of this series, we looked at rebasing and merging. Although there are a couple of differences between git merge and git rebase, both commands have the same goal: they integrate changes from one branch into another.
GitHub puts the needs of developers at the core of our content moderation policies. Learn more about our approach and how you can contribute.
With Stripe Tax, we make it easier for businesses to calculate and collect the right sales tax, VAT, and GST without needing to know the intricacies of tax rules or rates.
Nodecraft allows gamers to host dedicated servers for their favorite games. James Ross is the Chief Technology Officer for Nodecraft and has advocated for Cloudflare — particularly Cloudflare Workers — within the company.
