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Engineering — Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week

Welcome to Cloudflare Impact Week

We originally conceived the idea of Impact Week as a way to highlight some of the things we were doing as a company around our environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives.

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·July 25, 2021Engineering
Security — Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs

Cloudflare's Handling of an RCE Vulnerability in cdnjs

Recently, a RCE vulnerability in the way cdnjs’ backend is automatically keeping web resources up to date has been disclosed. Read about how Cloudflare handled the security incident and what will prevent similar exploits in the future.

GTGanz, Thomas CalderonGanz, Thomas Calderon·July 24, 2021Security
Engineering — AWS’s Egregious Egress

AWS’s Egregious Egress

Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.

MPMatthew Prince, Nitin RaoMatthew Prince, Nitin Rao·July 23, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance

Empowering customers with the Bandwidth Alliance

High egress costs from a Cloud limit customers choice in Cloud services. Cloudflare’s Bandwidth Alliance with our cloud partners provides an alternative to this lock-in. Our customers have benefitted from this both via discounted egress costs and choice of storage providers.

AArjunanArjunan·July 23, 2021Engineering
Security — DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q2

DDoS attack trends for 2021 Q2

The DDoS attack trends observed over Cloudflare’s network in 2021 Q2 paint a picture that reflects the overall global cyber threat landscape. Here are some highlights of DDoS attack trends observed in 2021 Q2.

VOVivek, OmerVivek, Omer·July 20, 2021Security
Networking — Automatic Remediation of Kubernetes Nodes

Automatic Remediation of Kubernetes Nodes

In Cloudflare’s core data centers, we are using Kubernetes to run many of the diverse services that help us control Cloudflare’s edge. We are automating some aspects of node remediation to keep the Kubernetes clusters healthy.

ADAndrew DemariaAndrew Demaria·July 15, 2021Networking
Engineering — The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar

The UEFA EURO 2020 final as seen online by Cloudflare Radar

Cloudflare has been publishing statistics about all the teams involved in EURO 2020 and traffic to betting websites, sports newspapers, streaming services and sponsors. Here’s a quick look at some specific highlights from England’s and Italy’s EURO 2020.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·July 12, 2021Engineering
SRE & Ops — Smart(er) Origin Service Level Monitoring

Smart(er) Origin Service Level Monitoring

Today we’re excited to announce Origin Error Rate notifications: a new, sophisticated way to detect and notify you when Cloudflare sees elevated levels of 5xx errors from your origin.

CCloudflare·July 8, 2021SRE & Ops
Engineering — Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month

Strength in Diversity: APAC Heritage Month

In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, we wanted to celebrate this occasion in a more inclusive and comprehensive way, which is why we called our celebration APAC Heritage Month.

AJArwa, Jessica IyerArwa, Jessica Iyer·July 5, 2021Engineering
Frontend — Browser VNC with Zero Trust Rules

Browser VNC with Zero Trust Rules

Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now shift another traditional client-driven use case to a browser. Teams can now provide their users with a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client fully rendered in the browser with built-in Zero Trust controls.

KKennyKenny·June 24, 2021Frontend
Engineering — Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns

Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns

To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·June 22, 2021Engineering
Networking — Building Waiting Room on Workers and Durable Objects

Building Waiting Room on Workers and Durable Objects

Our product is specifically built for customers who experience high volumes of traffic, so we needed to run code at the edge in a highly scalable manner. Cloudflare has a great culture of building upon its own products, so we naturally thought of Workers.

FGFabienne, GeorgeFabienne, George·June 16, 2021Networking
Engineering — Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo

Celebrating 7 Years of Project Galileo

Every June, we celebrate the anniversary of Project Galileo. This year, we are proud to celebrate seven years of protecting the most vulnerable groups on the Internet from cyberattacks.

CCloudflare·June 9, 2021Engineering
Engineering — Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns

Syria’s exam-related Internet shutdowns

To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. For most of June Syria is having planned Internet shutdowns during critical exam periods.

CCloudflare·June 3, 2021Engineering
Performance — QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare

QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare

QUIC is a new fast and secure transport protocol. Version 1 has just been published as RFC 9000 and today Cloudflare has enabled support for all customers, come try it out.

LALucas, Alessandro GhediniLucas, Alessandro Ghedini·May 28, 2021Performance
Security — Cloudflare’s SOC as a Service

Cloudflare’s SOC as a Service

Cloudflare SOC as a Service combines our best-in-class security products and a team of cybersecurity experts within Cloudflare that augment your security and network teams

OSOtto, ShashiOtto, Shashi·May 25, 2021Security
Engineering — Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers

Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers

So, if a developer wants to run their next hit, say a real-time multiplayer game, using nothing but their app and Workers, without any servers or traditional infrastructure, can they? Let’s prove they can. Here's Doom Multiplayer running on top of Cloudflare Workers.

CCelsoCelso·May 18, 2021Engineering
SRE & Ops — Highly available and highly scalable Cloudflare tunnels

Highly available and highly scalable Cloudflare tunnels

Starting today, we’re thrilled to announce you can run the same tunnel from multiple different cloudflareds simultaneously. This enables graceful restarts, elastic auto-scaling, easier Kubernetes integration, and more reliable tunnels.

ACAdam ChalmersAdam Chalmers·May 12, 2021SRE & Ops
Security — Designing the new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall

Designing the new Cloudflare Web Application Firewall

The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects websites and applications from malicious traffic attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in server software. It’s a critical piece of the broader security posture of your application.

SSyeefSyeef·May 11, 2021Security
Databases — Announcing Cloudflare’s Database Partners

Announcing Cloudflare’s Database Partners

Cloudflare introduces Macrometa and Fauna as Edge database partners and adds database connectors for DynamoDB and Aurora to Cloudflare Workers, expanding what developers can build at the edge.

GAGreg, AbhiGreg, Abhi·April 16, 2021Databases
Engineering — Cloudflare Stream now supports NFTs

Cloudflare Stream now supports NFTs

Today, we’re introducing a new API that takes an ERC-721 token ID and contact address and sets it on a video so every video on Stream can be represented with an NFT.

RRenanRenan·April 16, 2021Engineering
Security — Announcing Cloudflare for SaaS for Everyone

Announcing Cloudflare for SaaS for Everyone

Before today, SSL for SaaS was only available to Enterprise customers. Today, we are excited to announce that our SaaS solution is available to everyone. And to reflect the evolution of the product since it was first released, we’re changing the name: Cloudflare for SaaS.

DDinaDina·April 15, 2021Security
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