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Engineering — A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone

A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone

Argo Tunnel has been priced based on bandwidth consumption as part of Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare’s traffic acceleration feature. Starting today, we’re excited to announce that any organization can use the secure, outbound-only connection feature of the product at no cost.

AAbeAbe·April 15, 2021Engineering
Frontend — A Zero Trust terminal in your web browser

A Zero Trust terminal in your web browser

Starting today, your team can use that same platform to seamlessly connect to non-HTTP resources from inside of a browser with the same level of Zero Trust control available in web applications.

SSamSam·April 15, 2021Frontend
Performance — How To Get Web Design Clients Fast (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

How To Get Web Design Clients Fast (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine

If you’re an agency owner, you know that you need customers to grow. No matter how big your dreams are, customers are the lifeblood of your business. But you’re probably wondering — how do you attract quality, high-paying clients?Selling is key to growing your web design business, but it doesn’t have to be complicated! With clear goals, customer research, and proven closing techniques, anyone can

SRStephen RoeStephen Roe·April 15, 2021Performance
Performance — From Cats With Love: New Navigation, Guides And Workshops — Smashing Magazine

From Cats With Love: New Navigation, Guides And Workshops — Smashing Magazine

At Smashing, we’ve been busy over the last few months. We’ve set up new workshops, redesigned our navigation, refined performance and improved accessibility. There are subtle UX changes coming in, and we’d love to share what we’ve been cooking. A sincere thank you for your kind, ongoing support and generosity — thank you for being smashing, now and ever!

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·April 15, 2021Performance
Frontend — Overflow Issues In CSS — Smashing Magazine

Overflow Issues In CSS — Smashing Magazine

You may have come across horizontal scrollbar issues, especially on mobile, if you’re a front-end developer. Because there are many causes of scrollbar problems, there is no straightforward solution. Some issues can be fixed quickly, and some need a little debugging skill. In this article, Ahmad Shadeed will explore the causes of overflow issues and how to solve them. We will also explore how mode

ASAhmad ShadeedAhmad Shadeed·April 14, 2021Frontend
AI & ML — Bringing AI to the edge with NVIDIA GPUs

Bringing AI to the edge with NVIDIA GPUs

To help anyone build AI-based applications Cloudflare is extending the Workers platform to include support for NVIDIA GPUs and TensorFlow. Soon you’ll be able to build AI-based applications that run across the Cloudflare network using pre-built or custom models for inference.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·April 13, 2021AI & ML
Engineering — Building A Video Streaming App With Nuxt.js, Node And Express — Smashing Magazine

Building A Video Streaming App With Nuxt.js, Node And Express — Smashing Magazine

Instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to load more. In this article, Deven Rathore will build a video streaming app using Nuxt.js and Node.js. Specifically, you’ll build a server-side Node.j

DRDeven RathoreDeven Rathore·April 13, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Developer Challenges

Developer Challenges

Developer week is here! Throughout the week we are running a series of Developer Challenges that give you the perfect excuse to play with our new features. See how many of the challenges you can get through.

GGretchenGretchen·April 12, 2021Engineering
Networking — Live stream to multiple platforms with Stream Connect

Live stream to multiple platforms with Stream Connect

We are announcing Stream Connect, a service that enables creators and creator platforms to push RTMPS feeds to the Cloudflare edge and have it restreamed to your audience on popular platforms including Twitch, Facebook, and YouTube.

ZZaidZaid·April 12, 2021Networking
Frontend — A Complete Guide To HTML Email — Smashing Magazine

A Complete Guide To HTML Email — Smashing Magazine

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS generators, SVG generators and accessible front-end components. This time we look into templates and tools for building and designing HTML emails. Don

VFVitaly FriedmanVitaly Friedman·April 12, 2021Frontend
SRE & Ops — Per Origin Host Header Override

Per Origin Host Header Override

Load Balancing as a concept is pretty straightforward. Take an existing infrastructure and route requests to the available origin servers so no single server is overwhelmed. Add in some health monitoring to ensure each server has a heartbeat/pulse so proactive decisions can be made.

CCloudflare·April 9, 2021SRE & Ops