Optimizing images on the web
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.
From AMP to Signed Exchanges, Or How Innovation Happens at Cloudflare
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.
Improving Origin Performance for Everyone with Orpheus and Tiered Cache
Building a better Internet means helping build more reliable and efficient services that everyone can use.
Argo 2.0: Smart Routing Learns New Tricks
Starting today, all Free, Pro, and Business plan Argo customers will see improved performance with no additional configuration or charge.
Improve site load times and SEO with one-click support for Signed Exchanges on Google Search
Starting today, Cloudflare customers will be able to generate Signed Exchanges (SXG) for Google Search with just one click.
How we built Instant Logs
In this blog post, we’ll show you how we built a new system that can give you access to your Cloudflare logs in real time, with just a single click.
Data at Cloudflare just got a lot faster: Announcing Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs
Today, we’re excited to introduce Live-updating Analytics and Instant Logs. For Pro, Business, and Enterprise customers, our analytics dashboards now update in real time. In addition to this, Enterprise customers can now view their HTTP request logs instantly in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Cloudflare Workers: the Fast Serverless Platform
Today, Workers is 30% faster than it was three years ago at P90. And it is 210% faster than Lambda@Edge, and 298% faster than Lambda.
Vary for Images: Serve the Correct Images to the Correct Browsers
We’re excited to announce support for Vary, an HTTP header that ensures different content types can be served to user-agents with differing capabilities.
Cloudflare Passes 250 Cities, Triples External Network Capacity, 8x-es Backbone
Today, I have three speedy infrastructure updates: we’ve passed 250 on-network cities, more than tripled our external network capacity, and increased our long-haul internal backbone network by over 800% since the start of 2020.
Welcome to Speed Week and a Waitless Internet
No one likes to wait. Internet impatience is something we all suffer from.
How to execute an object file: Part 3
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. In this part we will handle external library dependencies.
Native Rust support on Cloudflare Workers
Introducing the Cloudflare Workers Rust SDK: write your entire Worker in Rust, no JavaScript required.
Introducing: Custom Hostname Analytics
Today, we’re excited to announce that SaaS providers will now be able to give their customers visibility into what happens to their traffic when the customer onboards onto the SaaS provider, and inherently, onto the Cloudflare network.
How Cloudflare helped mitigate the Atlassian Confluence OGNL vulnerability before the PoC was released
On August 25, 2021, Atlassian released a security advisory affecting their Confluence application. The Cloudflare WAF soon after started mitigating an increase in malicious traffic to vulnerable endpoints ensuring customers remained protected.
What’s new with Cloudflare for SaaS?
Today, we’re excited to announce all the customizations that our team has been working on for our Enterprise customers — for both Cloudflare for SaaS and SSL for SaaS.
Quick Tunnels: Anytime, Anywhere
Cloudflare Tunnel now supports a free version that includes all the latest features and does not require any onboarding to Cloudflare. With today’s change, you can begin experimenting with Tunnel in five minutes or less.
The EPYC journey continues to Milan in Cloudflare’s 11th generation Edge Server
At Cloudflare we aim to introduce a new server platform to our edge network every 12 to 18 months or so, to ensure that we keep up with the latest industry technologies and developments.
Pin, Unpin, and why Rust needs them
Using async Rust libraries is usually easy. It's just like using normal Rust code, with a little async or .await here and there. But writing your own async libraries can be hard.
Introducing logs from the dashboard for Cloudflare Workers
Many developers know the feeling: “It worked in the local testing suite, it worked in our staging environment, but… it’s broken in production?” Testing can reduce mistakes and debugging can help find them, but logs give us the tools to understand and improve what we are creating.
Making Magic Transit health checks faster and more responsive
Magic Transit advertises our customer’s IP prefixes directly from our edge network, applying DDoS mitigation and firewall policies to all traffic destined for the customer’s network.
Data protection controls with Cloudflare Browser Isolation
Starting today, your team can use Cloudflare’s Browser Isolation service to protect sensitive data inside the web browser. Administrators can define Zero Trust policies to control who can copy, paste, and print data in any web based application.
Announcing Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway
Today, we’re excited to announce Tenant Control in Cloudflare Gateway, a new feature that helps keep our work at work.
Building a Pet Cam using a Raspberry Pi, Cloudflare Tunnels and Teams
This was a perfect weekend project: I would set up my own pet cam, connect it to the Internet, and make it available for me to check from anywhere in the world.
Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack — the largest ever reported
Earlier this summer, Cloudflare’s autonomous edge DDoS protection systems automatically detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second (rps) DDoS attack, an attack almost three times larger than any previous one that we're aware of.
The First Three Winners from Cloudflare’s Project Jengo 2 Share $20,000
In April 2021, Cloudflare relaunched Project Jengo, Cloudflare’s prior art search contest. Here are the first round winners and an update on the case.
Capturing Purpose Justification in Cloudflare Access
Starting today, Cloudflare for Teams administrators can prompt users to enter a justification for accessing an application prior to login.
Zero Trust controls for your SaaS applications
With Access in front of your SaaS applications, you can build Zero Trust rules that determine who can reach your SaaS applications in the same place where your rules for self-hosted applications and network access live.
6 New Ways to Validate Device Posture
Cloudflare for Teams adds additional posture capabilities to better protect Access backed applications
Introducing Shadow IT Discovery
With Cloudflare for Teams, Administrators can allow their users to securely access applications with Cloudflare Access and explicitly block users from visiting various applications with Cloudflare Gateway.
Cloudflare Developer Summer Challenge
We’re giving away 300+ boxes of our most popular swag, while enabling collaboration with other participants through our Workers Discord channel.
Building the Cloudflare Summer Challenge Application
If you haven’t already heard, we’re hosting the Cloudflare Summer Developer Challenge, a contest for the Cloudflare community at large. Anybody – yes, including you – can sign up for free and compete for a chance to win one of 300 available prizes.
More devices, fewer CAPTCHAs, happier users
Today, we are taking another step in helping to reduce the Internet’s reliance on CAPTCHAs to prove that you are not a robot. We are expanding the reach of our Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood experiment by adding support for a much wider range of devices.
Introducing Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Private Web Attestation with Cross/Multi-Vendor Hardware
In Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood the server sends a message to the browser that the hardware security signs, demonstrating its authenticity.
Introducing Deploy Hooks for Cloudflare Pages
Today, we are proud to announce a new way to connect your Pages application with your headless CMSs and databases: introducing Deploy Hooks for Pages.
Cloudflare Helps K-12s Go Back to School
Cloudflare is excited to announce our Back to School initiative that provides special K-12 Education pricing to help school districts stop cyber attacks while improving web performance.
Modernizing a familiar approach to REST APIs, with PostgreSQL and Cloudflare Workers
By using PostgREST with Postgres, we can build REST API-based applications. In particular, it's an excellent fit for Cloudflare Workers, our serverless function platform. Workers is a great place to build REST APIs.
Durable Objects: Easy, Fast, Correct — Choose three
When multiple clients access the same storage concurrently, race conditions abound. Durable Objects can make it easier. We recently rolled out improvements to Durable Objects that automatically correct many common race conditions while actually making your code faster.
Helping Keep Governments Safe and Secure
Cloudflare and Accenture Federal Services (AFS) have been selected to deliver a joint solution to help the United States Government defend against cybersecurity attacks.
The Future of Work at Cloudflare
During Impact Week, we've shared how Cloudflare is providing tools for our customers to minimize their environmental impact as well as what we, as a company, are doing to help society at large. But some critical stakeholders we haven’t talked much about yet are Cloudflare's more than 2,000 employees
The Cloudflare Startup Enterprise Plan: helping new startups bootstrap
To help early stage startups get going, Cloudflare is giving away one year of the Startup Enterprise plan to all early stage startups in participating accelerator programs.
Building a sustainable workforce, through communities
At Cloudflare, we place a lot of value on the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion. Diversity, equity, and inclusion lead to better outcomes through improved decision-making, more innovative teams, stronger financial returns and simply a better place to work for everyone.
Introducing Greencloud
Greencloud is a coalition of Cloudflare employees who are passionate about the environment. Initially founded in 2019, we’re a cross-functional, global team with a few areas of focus: Awareness, Support, and Advocacy.
How Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) can change an organization
Employee resource groups (ERGs) foster community and a sense of belonging, help drive organizational change, and improve the overall quality of an organization’s culture. Most importantly, they help organizations become more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%
We're excited to announce that Cloudflare is joining Pledge 1%. We're joining the more than 12,000 companies in 100 countries that are committed to making a tangible, positive impact in their communities.
Cloudflare's Athenian Project Expands Internationally
Due to the growing trend of cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure, election security is not a US-specific issue. Today, we are extending our security tools to a range of election entities
Working with those who protect human rights around the world
Today, we are announcing Radar Alerts, a new program to help our civil society partners track and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from cyberattacks.
Certifying our Commitment to Your Right to Information Privacy
Cloudflare recognizes privacy in personal data as a fundamental human right and has taken a number of steps, including certifying to international standards, to demonstrate our commitment to privacy.
Cloudflare and COVID-19: Project Fair Shot Update
Cloudflare Waiting Room helping organizations around the world to stifle COVID-19 and aid with easy rapid vaccinations.
Project Galileo and The Global Cyber Alliance Cybersecurity Toolkit for Journalists
Independent media and journalists are targeted both physically and online as a result of reporting critical events around the world. Learn how the Global Cyber Alliance and Project Galileo
Cloudflare's Human Rights Commitments
Today, we are releasing our first human rights policy. The policy sets out our commitments and the way we implement them. Cloudflare’s mission — to help build a better Internet — reflects a long-
Crawler Hints: How Cloudflare Is Reducing The Environmental Impact Of Web Searches
Crawler Hints provide high quality data to search engine crawlers on when content has been changed on sites using Cloudflare, allowing them to precisely time their crawling, avoid wasteful crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins.
Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation
When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When
Cloudflare: 100% Renewable & Zeroing Out Emissions Back to Day 1
By 2025 Cloudflare aims to remove all greenhouse gases emitted as the result of powering our network, and we are committed to powering our network with 100% renewable energy.
Helping build a green Internet
While we didn't set out to reduce the environmental impact of the Internet, Cloudflare has always had efficiency at its core. It comes from our ongoing fight with an old nemesis: the speed of light.
Announcing Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers
At Cloudflare, our goal is to bring sustainable computing to you without the need for any additional time, work, or complexity.
Designing Edge Servers with Arm CPUs to Deliver 57% More Performance Per Watt
Using Arm, Cloudflare can now securely process over ten times as many Internet requests for every watt of power consumed, than we did for servers designed in 2013.
Understand and reduce your carbon impact with Cloudflare
As part of Cloudflare’s Impact Week, we’re excited to announce a new tool: Your Carbon Impact Report, available today for all Cloudflare accounts, will outline the carbon savings of operating your Internet properties on Cloudflare’s network.
Green Hosting with Cloudflare Pages
Cloudflare is proud to announce its collaboration with the Green Web Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with the mission of creating an Internet that one day will run on entirely renewable energy.
Announcing Project Pangea: Helping Underserved Communities Expand Access to the Internet For Free
Cloudflare is excited to announce Project Pangea. We’re launching a program that provides secure, performant, reliable access to the Internet for community networks that support underserved communities, and we’re doing it for free because we want to help build an Internet for everyone.
