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We recently ran a measurement experiment where we used Real User Measurement (RUM) data from the standard browser API to test the performance of Cloudflare and others in real-world conditions across the globe.
My favorite kind of blog post is when someone takes a subject that I’ve spent all of five minutes considering and then says—no!—this is an enormous topic
Gatsby Functions provide front-end developers a way to write and use server-side code without the hassle of maintaining a server. If making money from open-source is of interest to you and your site isn’t built using Gatsby, Paul Scanlon brings you an approach that may well be the answer you were looking for.
Today, Cloudflare is announcing support for Early Hints. Early Hints takes advantage of “server think time” to asynchronously send instructions to the browser to begin loading resources while the origin server is compiling the full response, which can improve page load time by 30%.
Cloudflare for Teams secures your company’s users, devices, and data — without slowing you down. Your team should not need to sacrifice performance in order to be secure.
It’s important that our network continues to help bring improved performance and resiliency to the Internet. To accomplish this, we built our own backbone.
“The last 20% of the work requires 80% of the effort.” The Pareto Principle applies in many domains — nowhere more so on the Internet, however, than on the Last Mile.
Today, as part of Speed Week, we’ll break down the other side of the Magic: how using Cloudflare can automatically make your entire network faster.
Read an updated article with an approach that uses modern CSS features.
There is a helluva gotcha with styling a <details> element, as documented here by Kitty Giraudel. It's obscure enough that you might never run into it,
If you’re a GitHub Enterprise Cloud customer, you can now set up a stream of audit log and Git events to Splunk or an Azure Event Hub.
Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun
Twenty years ago, Elie Sloïm chose to dedicate his professional life to web quality assurance. He started asking, ”What does quality mean for a web user?” Well, this article explains everything he has learned along the way.
Neglecting to cater your business website to your customers is not only detrimental to your sales but can also hurt your team’s productivity and operations. Integrating a CRM with your business website has numerous benefits. You equip various departments within your company with tools to organize and automate work and improve efficiency. In this article, Zara Cooper explains what these benefits ar
Today, we are launching Cloudflare Images for all customers. Images provides a single product to store, resize and serve images. We built Cloudflare Images, so customers of all sizes can build a scalable and affordable image pipeline with a fraction of the effort.
Cloudflare Web Analytics makes essential web analytics, such as the top-performing pages on your website and top referrers, available to everyone for free, and it’s becoming more powerful than ever.
Using Rust and Cloudflare Workers helps us quickly iterate and deliver product improvements over the coming weeks and months.
Are you tired of buckets and non ending egress fees? Cloudflare Images can help you to create and maintain your entire image pipeline.
A detailed breakdown of how best to optimize images for the web, a new tool to test a webpage's image performance, and explanation of how Cloudflare Images can help to improve your website's image experience.
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At Netflix, we heavily use gRPC for the purpose of backend to backend communication. This post explains how to use Protobuf FieldMask to design update and remove APIs.
Front-end development is exciting and fast-moving. With newer CSS properties, we can brush the dust off our old techniques and give them another look. For years, pseudo-elements have faithfully helped front-end developers implement creative designs. While they still have an important place, we can now leave pseudo-elements behind in some scenarios, thanks to newer CSS properties.
This is the story of how we decided to work with Google to build Signed Exchanges support at Cloudflare. But, more generally, it's also a story of how Cloudflare thinks about building disruptive new products.
Building a better Internet means helping build more reliable and efficient services that everyone can use.
