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Engineering — Moving Quicksilver into production

Moving Quicksilver into production

We previously explained how and why we built Quicksilver. This second blog post is about the long journey to production which culminates with Kyoto Tycoon removal from Cloudflare infrastructure and points to the first signs of obsolescence.

GPGeoffrey PlouviezGeoffrey Plouviez·November 25, 2020Engineering
Networking — Many services, one cloudflared

Many services, one cloudflared

Previously, if you wanted to proxy 100 services through Argo Tunnel, you needed 100 instances of cloudflared running on your server. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our most-requested feature: you can now expose unlimited services using one cloudflared.

ACAdam ChalmersAdam Chalmers·November 19, 2020Networking
Security — Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020

Network-layer DDoS attack trends for Q3 2020

In Q3 ‘20, Cloudflare observed a surge in DDoS attacks, with double the number of DDoS attacks and more attack vectors deployed than ever — with a notable surge in protocol-specific DDoS attacks such as mDNS, Memcached, and Jenkins amplification floods.

VOVivek, OmerVivek, Omer·November 18, 2020Security
Security — Anchoring Trust: A Hardware Secure Boot Story

Anchoring Trust: A Hardware Secure Boot Story

As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale.

DCDerek Chamorro, Ryan ChowDerek Chamorro, Ryan Chow·November 17, 2020Security
Security — When trusted relationships are formed, everyone wins!

When trusted relationships are formed, everyone wins!

Monday Mornings with Customer Success: A monthly series brought to you by our Customer Success Team. This month's post is all about how building trusted relationships resulted in an improved security posture and better solution for one of our customers.

JJJake JonesJake Jones·November 16, 2020Security
Security — SAD DNS Explained

SAD DNS Explained

Researchers from UC Riverside and Tsinghua University found a new way to revive a decade-old DNS cache poisoning attack. Read our deep dive into how the SAD DNS attack on DNS resolvers works, how we protect against this attack in 1.1.1.1, and what the future holds for DNS cache poisoning attacks.

MNMarek, Nick SullivanMarek, Nick Sullivan·November 13, 2020Security
SRE & Ops — Automated Origin CA for Kubernetes

Automated Origin CA for Kubernetes

Today we're releasing origin-ca-issuer, an extension to cert-manager integrating with Cloudflare Origin CA to easily create and renew certificates for your account's domains.

TSTerin StockTerin Stock·November 13, 2020SRE & Ops
Career & Teams — Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work

Tech Leaders on the Future of Remote Work

Dozens of top leaders and thinkers from the tech industry and beyond recently joined us for a series of fireside chats commemorating Cloudflare’s 10th birthday. Here are some of the highlights.

JKJason KincaidJason Kincaid·November 11, 2020Career & Teams
Networking — Unwrap the SERVFAIL

Unwrap the SERVFAIL

We recently released a new version of Cloudflare Resolver, which adds a piece of information called “Extended DNS Errors” (EDE) along with the response code under certain circumstances. This will be helpful in tracing DNS resolution errors and figure out what went wrong behind the scenes.

AAnbangAnbang·October 30, 2020Networking
Engineering — Introducing Bot Analytics

Introducing Bot Analytics

Nearly 40% of Internet traffic is automated. Today, Cloudflare is taking its Bot Management product to new heights with the release of Bot Analytics.

BBensolBensol·October 29, 2020Engineering
Systems — Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem

Diving into /proc/[pid]/mem

A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor.

LMLennart, Marek MajkowskiLennart, Marek Majkowski·October 27, 2020Systems
Engineering — Road to gRPC

Road to gRPC

Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support.

JYJunho, YuchenJunho, Yuchen·October 26, 2020Engineering
Networking — A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet

A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet

QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call.

LLucasLucas·October 22, 2020Networking
Security — A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience

A Virtual Product Management Internship Experience

In July 2020, I joined Cloudflare as a Product Management Intern on the DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) team to enhance the benefits that Network Analytics brings to our customers. This is my experience.

SSelinaSelina·October 22, 2020Security
Networking — Introducing Magic Firewall

Introducing Magic Firewall

Today we’re excited to announce Magic Firewall™, a network-level firewall delivered through Cloudflare to secure your enterprise. Magic Firewall covers your remote users, branch offices, data centers and cloud infrastructure.

AAchielAchiel·October 16, 2020Networking
Networking — How our network powers Cloudflare One

How our network powers Cloudflare One

Cloudflare's network is architected to solve the problems that face every organization trying to grow and protect a global network. With Cloudflare One, we're extending the advantage of these decisions to your company's network to help you solve them too.

AAnnikaAnnika·October 16, 2020Networking
Engineering — Zero Trust For Everyone

Zero Trust For Everyone

Announcing our new Teams plans, and more specifically, our Cloudflare for Teams Free plan, which protects up to 50 users at no cost.

AAbeAbe·October 13, 2020Engineering
Security — Introducing Cloudflare One

Introducing Cloudflare One

Today we’re announcing Cloudflare One. It provides secure, fast, reliable, cost-effective network services, integrated with leading identity management and endpoint security providers.

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·October 12, 2020Security
Security — What is Cloudflare One?

What is Cloudflare One?

Today, we’re excited to share Cloudflare One™, our vision to tackle the intractable job of corporate security and networking. Run your network on Cloudflare and keep it secure.

RSRustam, SamRustam, Sam·October 12, 2020Security
Performance — Exploring WebAssembly AI Services on Cloudflare Workers

Exploring WebAssembly AI Services on Cloudflare Workers

Edge networks present a significant opportunity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) performance and applicability. AI technologies already make it possible to run compelling applications like object and voice recognition, navigation, and recommendations.

CCloudflare·October 9, 2020Performance
Security — Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Know When You’ve Been DDoS’d

Today we’re announcing the availability of DDoS attack alerts. The alerts are available for free for all Cloudflare’s customers on paid plans. Learn how to create an alert.

CCloudflare·October 5, 2020Security
Networking — DNS Flag Day 2020

DNS Flag Day 2020

October 1 is DNS Flag Day, an initiative by the DNS community to make DNS more secure, reliable and robust. This year the focus is on problems around IP fragmentation of DNS packets.

CCloudflare·October 2, 2020Networking
Networking — Introducing API Shield

Introducing API Shield

Of the 18 million requests per second that traverse Cloudflare’s network, 50% are directed towards APIs. Cloudflare is making it simple to secure APIs through the use of strong client certificate-based identity and strict schema-based validation.

PDPatrick, DanielePatrick, Daniele·October 1, 2020Networking
Security — NTS is now an RFC

NTS is now an RFC

After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work.

WWatsonWatson·October 1, 2020Security
Security — Announcing support for gRPC

Announcing support for gRPC

Today we're excited to announce beta support for proxying gRPC, a next-generation protocol that allows you to build APIs at scale. With gRPC on Cloudflare, you get access to the security, reliability and performance features that you're used to having at your fingertips for traditional APIs.

AAchielAchiel·October 1, 2020Security
Engineering — Introducing Cloudflare Radar

Introducing Cloudflare Radar

Today we are launching a new service, Cloudflare Radar, that shines a light on the Internet’s patterns. Our goal is to help build a better Internet and we want to do this by exposing insights, threats and trends based on the aggregated data that we have.

MLMarc LamikMarc Lamik·September 30, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Free, privacy-first analytics for a better web

Free, privacy-first analytics for a better web

We’re announcing a brand new, privacy-first analytics service that’s open to everyone — even if they're not already a Cloudflare customer. And if you're a Cloudflare customer, we've enhanced our analytics to make them even more powerful than before.

JJplJpl·September 29, 2020Engineering
Performance — Start measuring Web Vitals with Browser Insights

Start measuring Web Vitals with Browser Insights

We're partnering with the Google Chrome team to bring Web Vitals measurements into Browser Insights. Web Vitals are a new set of metrics to help web developers and website owners measure and understand load time, responsiveness, and visual stability.

JJplJpl·September 29, 2020Performance
Networking — Explaining Cloudflare's ABR Analytics

Explaining Cloudflare's ABR Analytics

Cloudflare’s analytics products help customers answer questions about their traffic by analyzing the mind-boggling, ever-increasing number of events (HTTP requests, Workers requests, Spectrum events) logged by Cloudflare products every day.

JJamieJamie·September 29, 2020Networking