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Security — flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking

flowtrackd: DDoS Protection with Unidirectional TCP Flow Tracking

flowtrackd is a software-defined DDoS protection system that significantly improves our ability to automatically detect and mitigate even the most complex TCP-based DDoS attacks. If you are a Magic Transit customer, this feature will be enabled by default at no additional cost on July 29, 2020.

OOmerOmer·July 14, 2020Security
Engineering — Building Cloudflare TV from scratch

Building Cloudflare TV from scratch

Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.

OOliverOliver·July 7, 2020Engineering
Security — Making the WAF 40% faster

Making the WAF 40% faster

As with all Cloudflare security products, the WAF is designed to not sacrifice performance for security, but there is always room for improvement. This blog post provides a brief overview of the latest performance improvements that were rolled out to our customers.

MMiguelMiguel·July 1, 2020Security
Performance — Catching up with Workers KV

Catching up with Workers KV

Today, we’d like to share with you some of the stuff that has recently shipped in Workers KV: a new feature and an internal change that should significantly improve latency in some cases. Let’s dig in!

SSteveSteve·June 29, 2020Performance
Systems — Why is there a "V" in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?

Why is there a "V" in SIGSEGV Segmentation Fault?

My program received a SIGSEGV signal and crashed with "Segmentation Fault" message. Where does the "V" come from? Did I read it wrong? Was there a "Segmentation *V*ault?"? Or did Linux authors make a mistake? Shouldn't the signal be named SIGSEGF?

MMMarek Majkowski, David WraggMarek Majkowski, David Wragg·June 18, 2020Systems
Performance — Introducing Cache Analytics

Introducing Cache Analytics

Cache Analytics gives you deeper exploration capabilities into Cloudflare’s content delivery services, making it easier than ever to improve the performance and economics of serving your website to the world.

JJplJpl·June 16, 2020Performance
Security — Using data science and machine learning for improved customer support

Using data science and machine learning for improved customer support

In this blog post we’ll explore three tricks that can be used for data science that helped us solve real problems for our customer support group and our customers. Two for natural language processing in a customer support context and one for identifying attack Internet attack traffic.

JAJunade Ali, MalgorzataJunade Ali, Malgorzata·June 15, 2020Security
Engineering — Health Check Analytics and how you can use it

Health Check Analytics and how you can use it

Health Check Analytics is now live and available to all Pro, Business and Enterprise customers! We are very excited to help decrease your time to resolution and ensure your application reliability is maximised.

FBFabienne, BrianFabienne, Brian·June 12, 2020Engineering
Networking — High Availability Load Balancers with Maglev

High Availability Load Balancers with Maglev

We own and operate physical infrastructure for our backend services. We need an effective way to route arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic between services and also from outside these data centers.

TSTerin StockTerin Stock·June 10, 2020Networking
Engineering — UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage

UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage

Several months ago, I realized that I had a lot of sensitive files on my computer (my diary, if you must know) that I was afraid of losing, but I didn’t feel comfortable putting them in something like Google Drive or Dropbox. Introducing UtahFS.

BBrendanBrendan·June 9, 2020Engineering
Networking — Ladies and Gentlemen…Cloudflare TV!

Ladies and Gentlemen…Cloudflare TV!

I'm excited to announce the upcoming launch of Cloudflare TV. A 24x7 live television broadcast, streamed globally via the Cloudflare network. You can tune in to the pre-broadcast station and check out the upcoming schedule at: cloudflare.tv

MPMatthew PrinceMatthew Prince·June 7, 2020Networking
Engineering — How we use HashiCorp Nomad

How we use HashiCorp Nomad

A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.

TThomasThomas·June 5, 2020Engineering
Performance — Test your home network performance

Test your home network performance

Cloudflare launches speed.cloudflare.com, a tool that allows you to gain in-depth insights into the quality of your network uplink, including throughput, latency and jitter.

AAchielAchiel·May 26, 2020Performance
Networking — Making DNS record changes more reliable

Making DNS record changes more reliable

DNS is the very first step in accessing any website, API, or pretty much anything on the Internet, which makes it mission-critical to keeping your site up and running. This week, we are launching two significant changes that allow our customers to better maintain and update their DNS records.

DDinaDina·May 25, 2020Networking
Engineering — DeepLinks and ScrollAnchor

DeepLinks and ScrollAnchor

One of the interesting challenges with deep linking in the Cloudflare Dashboard is that most interesting resources are “locked” behind the context of an account and a zone/domain/website. To illustrate this, look at a tree of possible URL paths into Cloudflare’s Dashboard.

DRDrew, RobertDrew, Robert·May 18, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Backblaze B2 and the S3 Compatible API on Cloudflare

Backblaze B2 and the S3 Compatible API on Cloudflare

In May 2020, Backblaze, a founding Bandwidth Alliance partner announced S3 compatible APIs for their B2 Cloud Storage service. We are excited to see Backblaze introduce a new level of compatibility in their Cloud Storage service.

TOTim ObezukTim Obezuk·May 13, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Making Video Intuitive: An Explainer

Making Video Intuitive: An Explainer

At Cloudflare, we work to provide a great viewing experience while keeping our service affordable. In this post, let's have some fun to see changes between different versions of a video.

KBKyle BoutetteKyle Boutette·May 12, 2020Engineering
Performance — CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche

CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche

Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network conditions.

JJunhoJunho·May 8, 2020Performance
Networking — When people pause the Internet goes quiet

When people pause the Internet goes quiet

As human behaviour has changed in response to the pandemic, it's left a mark on the charts that network operators look at day in, day out to ensure that their networks are running correctly.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·May 1, 2020Networking
Engineering — Doubling the intern class - and making it all virtual

Doubling the intern class - and making it all virtual

We have found interns to be invaluable. Not only do they bring an electrifying new energy over the summer, but they also come with their curiosity to help solve problems, contribute to major projects, and bring refreshing perspectives to the company.

JCJudy CheongJudy Cheong·April 29, 2020Engineering
SRE & Ops — Releasing kubectl support in Access

Releasing kubectl support in Access

Starting today, you can use Cloudflare Access and Argo Tunnel to securely manage your Kubernetes cluster with the kubectl command-line tool. SSO requirements and a zero-trust model to your Kubernetes management in under 30 minutes.

CCloudflare·April 27, 2020SRE & Ops
Performance — Stream Firewall Events directly to your SIEM

Stream Firewall Events directly to your SIEM

As of today, customers using Cloudflare Logs can create Logpush jobs that send only Firewall Events. These events arrive much faster than our existing HTTP requests logs: they are typically delivered to your logging platform within 60 seconds of sending the response to the client.

PPatrickPatrick·April 24, 2020Performance
Networking — Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully

Is BGP Safe Yet? No. But we are tracking it carefully

BGP leaks and leaks and hijacks have been accepted as an unavoidable part of the Internet for far too long. Today, we are releasing isBGPSafeYet.com, a website to track deployments and filtering of invalid routes by the major networks.

LPLouis PoinsignonLouis Poinsignon·April 17, 2020Networking
Engineering — Time-Based One-Time Passwords for Phone Support

Time-Based One-Time Passwords for Phone Support

Cloudflare Enterprise customers can now authenticate themselves for phone support using TOTP tokens, either by using an authenticator app or generating single-use tokens from the Cloudflare Dashboard.

JAJunade Ali, AndronicusJunade Ali, Andronicus·April 17, 2020Engineering
Engineering — Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL

Cloudflare Workers Now Support COBOL

COBOL is often a source of amusement for programmers because it is seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. COBOL can now be used to write code for Cloudflare’s serverless platform Workers.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·April 16, 2020Engineering
Performance — Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance

Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance

We announced support for HTTP/3, the successor to HTTP/2, during Cloudflare’s birthday week last year. Our goal is and has always been to help build a better Internet. Even though HTTP/3 is still in draft status, we've seen a lot of interest from our users.

STSreeni TellakulaSreeni Tellakula·April 14, 2020Performance
Security — Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft

Cloudflare for SSH, RDP and Minecraft

Cloudflare now covers SSH, RDP and Minecraft, offering DDoS protection and increased network performance. Spectrum pay-as-you-go now available on all paid plans.

AAchielAchiel·April 13, 2020Security