How to connect your offices to Cloudflare using SD-WAN
Today, a more modern approach is to use SD-WAN to configure your networks and connect them to Cloudflare’s network, leveraging that as the new corporate backbone. It's quick and easy!
PII and Selective Logging controls for Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform
Today we’re excited to announce a combination of two features, Zero Trust role-based access and selective logging. With these features, administrators will be able to protect not only their users but also the data their users generate.
Welcome to CIO Week and the future of corporate networks
This week, we’ll demonstrate how Cloudflare One, our Zero Trust Network-as-a-Service, is helping CIOs transform their corporate networks.
Get notified when your site is under attack
Cloudflare can now send proactive notifications about any application security event spike, so you are warned whenever an attack might be targeting your application.
The Grinch Bot is Stealing Christmas!
Bots moved quickly this holiday season, launching over 1 trillion requests on Black Friday but quickly receding after the weekend.
Thanksgiving’s biggest online shopping day was Cyber Monday, but other days were close behind
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.
Attack Maps now available on Radar
We love line and bar graphs, but some data is best represented with different visualizations. We’re introducing world maps and sankey visualizations as part of Radar Maps, which are being used today to show you the top layer 7 attacks in real time.
How the US paused shopping (and browsing) for Thanksgiving
Throughout the pandemic we saw different trends caused by people being more at home than usual, but Internet patterns also change at specific times of the year (like when students go back to school or when it’s colder outside) or on some holidays like Thanksgiving.
Heard in the halls of Web Summit 2021
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).
Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask, part 1
Historically Cloudflare's core competency was operating an HTTP reverse proxy. We've spent significant effort optimizing traditional HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 servers running on top of TCP.
Announcing Argo for Spectrum
Announcing general availability of Argo for Spectrum, a way to turbo-charge any TCP based application.
Burkina Faso Internet shutdown
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.
Sudan was cut off from the Internet for 25 days
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.
Network Performance Update: Full Stack Week
Several months ago, we shared extensive benchmarking results of edge networks around the world, and made a commitment that we would improve in 10% of networks where we were not #1. Here are our results today.
Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers
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.
An Open-Source CMS on the Cloudflare Stack: Introductory Post
We are developing an example feature-complete SaaS application that will be built entirely on the Cloudflare stack.
Build your next video application on Cloudflare
Today, we’re going to build a video application inspired by Cloudflare TV. We’ll have user authentication and the ability for administrators to upload recorded videos or livestream new content. Think about being able to build your own YouTube or Twitch using Cloudflare services!
Announcing native support for Stripe’s JavaScript SDK in Cloudflare Workers
Handling payments inside your apps is crucial to building a business online. For many developers, the leading choice for handling payments is Stripe.
New Stream Player customizations to boost your video experience
Today, we are extending the Stream Player vision with a series of new customization options to help you deliver the best end-user experience.
Workers, Now Even More Unbound: 15 Minutes, 100 Scripts, and No Egress Fees
Workers is now even more Unbound, with no egress, more execution time, and more scripts.
The Cloudflare Developer Expert Program: apply today!
The Cloudflare Developer Expert Program rewards developers who build on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Images introduces AVIF, Blur and Bundle with Stream
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.
Developer Spotlight: Automating Workflows with Airtable and Cloudflare Workers
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.
Cloudflare Pages Goes Full Stack
Cloudflare Pages with Functions is now in open beta!
Developer Spotlight: Chris Coyier, CodePen
Due to the nature of CodePen — namely, hosting code and an incredibly popular embedding feature, allowing developers to share their CodePen “pens” around the world — any sort of optimization can have a massive impact on CodePen’s business.
Building a full stack application with Cloudflare Pages
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 now partners with your favorite CMS
Cloudflare Pages partners up with some of the biggest headless CMSs
Cloudflare Pages now offers GitLab support
Cloudflare Pages partners up with GitLab for full git integration.
wrangler 2.0 — a new developer experience for Cloudflare Workers
We're excited to announce the second-generation of our developer tooling for Cloudflare Workers. It’s a new developer experience that’s out-of-the-box, lightning fast, and can even run Workers on a local machine. (Yes!)
Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers
Every time the Workers runtime code is built, a script runs over the public APIs and generates the Rust and TypeScript types as well as a JSON file containing an intermediate representation of the static types. The types are sent to the appropriate repositories and the JSON file is uploaded as well.
JavaScript modules are now supported on Cloudflare Workers
Now you can use JavaScript modules, also known as ECMAScript or “ES” modules, on Cloudflare Workers. This replaces the old “addEventListener” syntax with a new “import” and “export” semantics that makes it really easy to write reusable, modular code.
Developer Spotlight: James Ross, Nodecraft
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.
Introducing Services: Build Composable, Distributed Applications on Cloudflare Workers
We’re excited to announce Services, the new way to build composable, distributed applications on Cloudflare Workers. Learn how Services can replace the traditional “microservice architecture” with an alternative, zero-cost abstraction model.
Introducing Relational Database Connectors
Customers can connect to a Postgres or MySQL database directly from their Workers using a Cloudflare Tunnel today. In the future, you can use Database Connectors to achieve this natively using a standardized Socket API.
Durable Objects — now Generally Available
Today, we’re announcing that Durable Objects are generally available and production-ready for you to use!
Making connections with TCP and Sockets for Workers
The ability to make TCP and QUIC client connections from within Workers and Durable Objects, as well as the ability to connect to Workers over TCP and QUIC without using HTTP, will be coming to Cloudflare Workers. Here’s a peek at what we’re working on.
Workers adds support for two modern data platforms: MongoDB Atlas and Prisma
With built-in global deployments, insane scalability and the flexibility of JavaScript, more and more applications are choosing to build on our global platform.
Developer Spotlight: Winning a Game Jam with Jamstack and Durable Objects
Guido won the innovative category in one of the biggest Game Jams with a combination of Pages, Durable Objects, modern browser APIs, and a hefty amount of ingenuity.
Welcome to Full Stack Week
This week, as we do in our Innovation Weeks, we’ll make a series of announcements to help paint a vision for how we see the future of compute, and giving our developers the tools they need to build their next application on our network.
Cloudflare blocks an almost 2 Tbps multi-vector DDoS attack
Earlier this week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a DDoS attack that peaked just below 2 Tbps — the largest we’ve seen to date.
Five Great (free!) Ways to Get Started With Cloudflare
New to Cloudflare and don’t know where to begin? Here are five things you can do to get started with Cloudflare right now...
A Brief History of the Meris Botnet
Over the past months, we’ve been tracking and analyzing the activity of the Meris botnet.
Satyen Desai: Why I joined Cloudflare and why I am helping Cloudflare grow in Southeast Asia and Korea
I am excited to announce that I have joined Cloudflare as the Head of Southeast Asia and Korea (SEAK) region to help build a better Internet and to expand Cloudflare’s growing customer, partner and local teams across all the countries in SEAK.
Sizing Up Post-Quantum Signatures
How much room does TLS have for the big post-quantum signatures? We had a look: it’s tight.
When students go back to school mobile usage goes down
September is the “get back to school” month for many. Looking at our data there’s a global trend: mobile traffic lost importance (compared with desktop traffic) in September 2021 compared to August.
DDoS Attack Trends for Q3 2021
In Q3, 2021 we saw and mitigated record-setting HTTP DDoS attacks, terabit-strong network layer attacks, one of the largest botnets ever deployed (Meris), and more recently, ransom attacks on Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service providers.
The tale of a single register value
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
How we build software at Cloudflare
Cloudflare has a broad range of products -- ranging from security, to performance and serverless compute. These products are built by multiple teams in close collaboration and delivering those products can be a complex task. So ever wonder how we do so consistently and safely at scale?
Cloudflare recognized as a 'Leader' in The Forrester New Wave for Edge Development Platforms
Forrester’s New Wave for Edge Development Platforms has just been announced. We’re thrilled that they have named Cloudflare a leader.
Introducing Custom Headers for Cloudflare Pages
We're excited to announce that Pages now natively supports custom headers on your projects! Simply create a _headers file in the build directory of your project and within it, define the rules you want to apply.
Sudan woke up without Internet
Today, October 25, following political turmoil, Sudan woke up without Internet access.
Cloudflare Tunnel for Content Teams
See how we’re using Cloudflare Tunnel to share our technical writing with internal stakeholders for a faster, seamless feedback process.
Cloudflare for SaaS for All, now Generally Available!
We are very excited to announce that Cloudflare for SaaS is generally available, so that every customer, big and small, can use Cloudflare for SaaS to continue scaling and building their SaaS business.
Traffic Sequence: Which Product Runs First?
Understand how Cloudflare product’s interact via the new dashboard addition ‘Traffic Sequence’.
Getting Cloudflare Tunnels to connect to the Cloudflare Network with QUIC
It is now possible to connect a Cloudflare Tunnel to the Cloudflare network with QUIC. While doing this, we ran into an interesting connectivity problem unique to UDP.
Zero Trust — Not a Buzzword
Over the last few years, Zero Trust, a term coined by Forrester, picked up a lot of steam. Zero Trust, in its core, is a network architecture and security framework focusing on not having a distinction between external and internal access environments, and never trusting users/roles.
Backwards-compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
On the Workers team, we have a policy: A change to the Workers Runtime must never break an application that is live in production.
Crawler Hints Update: Cloudflare Supports IndexNow and Announces General Availability
Crawler Hints now supports IndexNow, a new protocol that allows websites to notify search engines whenever content on their website content is created, updated, or deleted.
Tunnel: Cloudflare’s Newest Homeowner
Starting today, users who deploy and manage Cloudflare Tunnel at scale now have easier visibility into their Tunnel’s respective status, routes, uptime, connectors, cloudflared version, and much more through our new UI in the Cloudflare for Teams Dashboard.
Introducing Cloudflare’s Technology Partner Program
We aim to continue expanding our ecosystem of programs and partners to make it seamless for our customers to use Cloudflare.
