HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used
Cloudflare observations of Confluence zero day (CVE-2022-26134)
UTC Atlassian released a Security Advisory relating to a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center products.
Cloudflare customers are protected from the Atlassian Confluence CVE-2022-26134
On June 02, 2022 Atlassian released a security advisory for their Confluence Server and Data Center applications, highlighting a critical severity unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability.
Platform Week wrap-up
Recently, during Platform Week, we made a number of announcements expanding what’s possible with the Developer Platform. Let’s take a look at some of these and what this enables you to build
“Much more than just writing.” How I got started as a content designer
Great content on an interface “just works”; it disappears into a delightful user experience while leading happy users to success, whatever it is they’re trying to get done with a given product
We rebuilt Cloudflare's developer documentation - here's what we learned
In this blog post, we’ll cover the history of Cloudflare’s developer docs, why we made this recent transition, and why we continue to dogfood Cloudflare’s products as we develop applications internally
Cloudflare’s approach to handling BMC vulnerabilities
Cloudflare’s approach to handling firmware vulnerabilities and how we keep our internal data protected
How we treat content as a product
Learn how the Product Content Experience team treats developer documentation and in-product content like a product
How we improved DNS record build speed by more than 4,000x
How we redesigned our DNS pipeline to significantly improve DNS propagation speed across all zones.
Dig through SERVFAILs with EDE
Now we’re happy to announce we will return more error code types and include additional helpful information to further improve your debugging experience.
Cloudflare Middle East & Turkey: a path to growth
I am excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as Managing Director for the Middle East and Turkey (MET) region
Cloudflare achieves key cloud computing certifications — and there’s more to come
Cloudflare now has a second major international privacy certification, as well as C5 attestation — and we’re not done yet.
Wendy Komadina: No one excited me more than Cloudflare, so I joined.
When I considered joining Cloudflare, I recall consistently reading the message around “Helping to Build a Better Internet”. At first those words didn’t connect with me, but they sounded like an important mission.
Eurovision 2022, the Internet effect version
The 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, had two semi-finals (May 10 and 12) and a final (May 14), all of them with highlights, including Ukraine’s victory. The Internet was impacted in more than one way, from whole countries to the fan and official broadcasters sites, but also video platforms.
Monitoring our monitoring: how we validate our Prometheus alert rules
Pint is a tool we developed to validate our Prometheus alerting rules and ensure they are always working
Internship Experience: Software Development Intern
Back in December 2021, I joined Cloudflare as a Software Development Intern on the Partnerships team to help improve the experience that Partners have when using the platform
Integrating Network Analytics Logs with your SIEM dashboard
We’re excited to announce the availability of Network Analytics Logs for maximum visibility into L3/4 traffic and DDoS attacks
Debugging Hardware Performance on Gen X Servers
In Cloudflare’s global network, every server runs the whole software stack. Therefore, it's critical that every server performs to its maximum potential capacity
Announcing our Spring Developer Challenge
After many announcements from Platform Week, we’re thrilled to make one more: our Spring Developer Challenge!
Network performance update: Platform Week
We’re sharing updated performance metrics on our Workers platform. We’ve done an extensive benchmark of Cloudflare Workers vs Fastly’s Compute@Edge.
How Ramadan shows up in Internet trends
What happens to the Internet traffic in countries who observe Ramadan? Depending on the country, we see clear shifts and changing patterns in Internet use, particularly before dawn and after sunset.
Proof of Stake and our next experiments in web3
Cloudflare is going to participate in the research and development of the core infrastructure that helps keep Ethereum secure, fast, as well as energy efficient for everyone
Public access for our Ethereum and IPFS gateways now available
Today we are excited to announce that our Ethereum and IPFS gateways are publicly available to all Cloudflare customers for the first time
Serving Cloudflare Pages sites to the IPFS network
Today, we're announcing we're bridging the two. We will make it possible for our customers to serve their sites on the IPFS network
Gaining visibility in IPFS systems
We've developed the IPFS Gateway monitor, an observability tool that runs various IPFS scenarios on a given gateway endpoint.
Part 1: Rethinking Cache Purge, Fast and Scalable Global Cache Invalidation
This is Part 1 of what will be a year-long series documenting our journey to re-architect our systems to be the best, fastest, most-scalable purge in the industry
Announcing the Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit
Migrating millions of images into Cloudflare is now simple, fast and at the distance of a few clicks. The new Cloudflare Images Sourcing Kit Allows you to define your image sources, reuse them when you need to add new images or refresh existing ones
Send email using Workers with MailChannels
MailChannels has created an email sending service specifically for Cloudflare Workers that removes all the friction associated with sending emails
Route to Workers, automate your email processing
With Cloudflare Workers and Email Routing you now have a developer platform to implement any logic you ever wanted for programmatically handling incoming Emails.
Closed Caption support coming to Stream Live
Soon, Stream will auto-detect embedded captions and include it in the live stream delivered to your viewers
Stream with sub-second latency is like a magical HDMI cable to the cloud
Starting today, in open beta, Cloudflare Stream supports video playback with sub-second latency over SRT or RTMPS at scale
Bring your own ingest domain to Stream Live
Starting today, every Stream account can configure its own domain in the Stream dashboard.
Cloudflare Stream simplifies creator management for creator platforms
Many Stream customers track video usage on a per-creator basis. Today, we are announcing creator management to make usage tracking much easier
Announcing Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT-based Messaging
Announcing the beta of Cloudflare Pub/Sub, our programmable, serverless message broker built on the open MQTT messaging standard
How we built config staging and versioning with HTTP applications
Learn how we built config versioning and staging for L7 configuration with HTTP Applications
Introducing Custom Domains for Workers
Custom Domains are now available for your Workers. Hook up a Worker to any domain you own, and Cloudflare will handle making DNS records and issuing certificates on your behalf
Our growing Developer Platform partner ecosystem
Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Ecosystem continues to expand ensuring you can integrate with the tools you use, or want to use
Magic NAT: everywhere, unbounded, and lower cost
Today, we’re delighted to introduce a new approach to NAT that solves the problems of traditional hardware and virtual solutions
Introducing Workers Analytics Engine
Workers Analytics Engine is a new way to get telemetry about anything using Cloudflare Workers. Workers Analytics Engine provides time series analytics built for the serverless era
Introducing Pages Plugins
Introducing Pages Plugins – reusable and customizable chunks of runtime code that can be incorporated anywhere within your Pages application. Try one of the officially supported Plugins from our partners or build your own
Announcing D1: our first SQL database
Today, we’re excited to announce D1, Cloudflare’s first SQL database, designed for Cloudflare Workers
A New Hope for Object Storage: R2 enters open beta
R2 Object Storage is now in open beta, available for all customers to test and deploy!
Introducing Cache Reserve: massively extending Cloudflare’s cache
I’m delighted to announce an extension of the benefits of caching with Cache Reserve: a new way to persistently serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache
Logs on R2: slash your logging costs
You shouldn’t have to make trade-offs between keeping logs that you need and managing tight budgets. R2’s low costs makes this decision easier and now you can use Logpush to store logs on R2.
Durable Objects Alarms — a wake-up call for your applications
Durable Object alarms let you call a function at a defined point in the future, unlocking deeper use-cases for Durable Objects like reliable queuing
Announcing Workers for Platforms: making every application on the Internet more programmable
Announcing Workers for Platforms, our tool suite to help make any product programmable, and help our customers deliver value to their customers and developers instantaneously
Service Bindings are generally available, with efficient pricing
Service bindings are an API that facilitate Worker-to-Worker communication. You can invoke other Workers directly from your code; making it possible to communicate with shared services. We’ll also make it cost-efficient to run multiple Workers
Workers visibility: announcing Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events
Customers are using Cloudlfare Workers to create the next big thing, we’re building tools to make that happen successfully. We’re excited to announce Logpush for Worker’s Trace Events, making it easier than ever to gain visibility into applications built on Workers
A new era for Cloudflare Pages builds
Announcing several build experience improvements for Cloudflare Pages including build times, logging and configuration
Watching Eurovision 2022 on Cloudflare Radar
This year, for the 66th edition, we have a dedicated page for Eurovision fans, journalists or anyone interested in following Internet trends related to the event taking place in Turin, Italy.
Introducing Direct Uploads for Cloudflare Pages
Pages now supports direct uploads to give you more power to build and iterate how you want and with the tools you want
A Community Group for Web-interoperable JavaScript runtimes
The Web-interoperable Runtimes Community Group is a new effort that brings contributors from Cloudflare Workers, Deno, and Node.js together to collaborate on common Web platform API standards.
Come join us at Cloudflare Connect New York this Thursday!
We’re packing our bags, getting on planes and heading to New York to do our first live customer event since 2019 and we could not be more excited.
Cloudflare and StackBlitz partner to deliver an instant and secure developer experience
We’re excited to announce that we’re partnering with StackBlitz. Together, we will bring the Wrangler experience closer to you – directly to your browser, with no dependencies required
10 things I love about Wrangler v2.0
We are proud to announce that Wrangler goes public today for general usage, and can’t wait to see what people build with it
Open source Managed Components for Cloudflare Zaraz
Fixing third-party security issues and bloat takes collaborative work. We are open sourcing Managed Components, so everyone can use fast and secure third-parties, everywhere
The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open source
As the first announcement of Platform Week, today Cloudflare is announcing the open sourcing of the Workers runtime under the Apache-2.0 license
Welcome to Platform Week
This Platform Week, we don’t want to deliver on just new and shiny things (though there will be a few of those, too!). We want to deliver on principles. On letting the best solution win. On breaking developers out of lock in: whether because of code, or because of economics
Announcing our Spring Developer Speaker Series
We're excited to announce a new edition of our Developer Speaker Series for 2022! Check out the eleven expert web dev speakers, developers, and educators that we’ve invited to speak live on Cloudflare TV
Why I joined Cloudflare in Latin America
Over the past couple of years, our reliance on the Internet has increased, and Latin America is the fourth largest region in terms of online users globally. You can see how this makes Cloudflare’s mission even more important and presents a significant opportunity in Latin America
