Announcing Cloudflare Research Hub
Announcing a new landing page where you can learn more about our research and additional resources.
Internship Experience: Research Engineer
Over the summer of 2020 I interned at Cloudflare Research. This invaluable experience contributed to Cloudflare’s support of ODoH protocol, and I was awarded the best student paper award at PETS 2021.
Cloudflare invites visiting researchers
As part of Cloudflare’s effort to build collaborations with academia, we host research focused internships all year long. Interns collaborate cross-functionally in research projects and are encouraged to ship code and write a blog post and a peer-reviewed publication at the end of their internship.
Cash (Tiny jQuery Alternative)
The README for Cash is straightforward:
Those "Get The App" Banners
Why would a company promote a native app over their perfectly usable website?
GitHub security update: revoking weakly-generated SSH keys
On September 28, 2021, we received notice from the developer Axosoft regarding a vulnerability in a dependency of their popular git GUI client – GitKraken. An underlying issue with a dependency, called `keypair`, resulted in the GitKraken client generating weak SSH keys.
Scaling indexing and search - Algolia New Search Architecture Part 2 - High Scalability -
What would a totally new search engine architecture look like? Who better than Julien Lemoine, Co-founder & CTO of Algolia, to describe what the future of search will look like. This is the second article in a series. Here's Part 1. Search engines need to support fast scaling for both Read and Write operations. Rapid scaling is essential in most use cases. For example, adding a vendor in a marketp
The Autofill Dark Pattern — Smashing Magazine
A “dark pattern” is a deceptive UX pattern that tricks users into doing things they may not really want to do. Autofill is a widespread feature either by choice or by accident: who hasn’t accepted to let the browser save/use web form information, either on purpose or by mistake? In this article, Alvaro Montoro does a little experiment to find out how much privacy is taken away from users across th
Cloudflare Research: Two Years In
What Cloudflare Research has been up to for the last two years.
Where is mobile traffic the most and least popular?
We used Cloudflare Radar to find out those countries on the planet that have more (and less) mobile traffic on the Internet. Africa and the Middle East are the areas of the planet where mobile traffic dominates the Internet experience
Composable CSS Animation In Vue With AnimXYZ — Smashing Magazine
Most animation libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion are built purely with JavaScript or TypeScript, unlike AnimXYZ, which is labelled “the first composable CSS animation toolkit”, built mainly with SCSS. While a simple library, it can be used to achieve a lot of awesome animation on the web in a short amount of time and little code. In this article, Ejiro Asiuwhu will show you how to use the Anim
What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage
Today, we're going to show you how the Facebook and affiliate sites downtime affected us, and what we can see in our data.
Helping Apache Servers stay safe from zero-day path traversal attacks (CVE-2021-41773)
On September 29th 2021, the Apache Security team was alerted of a path traversal vulnerability being actively exploited (zero-day) against Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49. Customers running the affected Apache version, should update to 2.5.51 as soon as possible.
Comparing Google Analytics and Plausible Numbers
I saw this blog post the other day: 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics. That's an enticing title to me. I've had
The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
A good essay from Jean Yang.
Jekyll doesn't do components? Liar!
I like the pushback from Katie Kodes here. I've said in the past that I don't think server-side languages haven't quite nailed "building in components" as
Building a Tennis Trivia App With Next.js and Netlify
Today we will be learning how to build a tennis trivia app using Next.js and Netlify. This technology stack has become my go-to on many projects. It allows
Release Radar
The Northern Hemisphere has hit fall, and the southern is starting to warm into summer. September has been a busy time for our community. Maintainers have been getting their repositories…
Building A Static-First MadLib Generator With Portable Text And Netlify On-Demand Builder Functions — Smashing Magazine
Creating an interactive experience with fiction can be a chore with traditional content management tools. Let’s make it the domain of just one content creator in which the user will fill out a form before reading the story. In this article, Bryan Robinson will be building an interactive fiction experience in which a user can insert words that match parts of speech given by the content creator. Let
Waiting Room: Random Queueing and Custom Web/Mobile Apps
Today, we are announcing Waiting Room’s general availability and several new features that have user experience in mind — an alternative queueing method and support for custom web/mobile applications!
Update on recent VoIP attacks: What should I do if I’m attacked?
Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place.
In a win for the Internet, federal court rejects copyright infringement claim against Cloudflare
In Mon Cheri Bridals, LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc., the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted Cloudflare’s motion for summary judgment and concluded that no reasonable jury could find Cloudflare liable for the alleged copyright infringement at issue.
A Themeable React Data Grid With Great UX-Focused Features
KendoReact can save you boatloads of time because it offers pre-built componentry you can use in your app right away. They look nice, but more importantly,
OpenStreetMap service by CYBERTEC
Importing OpenStreetMap data into PostGIS is time-consuming. Download OpenStreetMap offers two dataset types periodically served as sql dumps.
GitHub’s guide to Hacktoberfest 2021
Giving back to open source projects is a great way to practice skills you don’t get to use in your day job. Check out ways to get involved!
GitHub Advisory Database now powers npm audit
Today, we’re adding a proxy on top of the GitHub Advisory Database that speaks the `npm audit` protocol. This means that every version of the npm CLI that supports security audits is now talking directly to the GitHub Advisory Database.
Inside the Lab: Expanding connectivity by sea, land, and air
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Infrastructure Observability for Changing the Spend Curve
Slack is an integral part of where work happens for teams across the world, and our work in the Core Development Engineering department supports engineers throughout Slack that develop, build, test, and release high-quality services to Slack’s customers. In this article, we share how teams at Slack evolved our internal tooling and made infrastructure bets.…
Freebie: COVID-19 Icon Set (56 Icons, AI, EPS, SVG, PNG) — Smashing Magazine
Every once in a while, we publish [freebies](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/freebies/) related to different occasions and themes. We hope that with this icon set, every designer will be able to find their own use case and contribute to saving lives. Free for personal and commercial use. [Get the free icon pack](https://smashingmagazine.com/provide/smashing-freebie-coronavirus-covid19.zi
Staging TLS Certificates: Make every deployment a safe deployment
We are excited to announce that Enterprise customers now have the ability to test custom uploaded certificates in a staging environment before pushing them to production.
The Options for Password Revealing Inputs
In HTML, there is a very clear input type for dealing with passwords:
GitHub Availability Report: September 2021
In September, we experienced no incidents resulting in service downtime to our core services.
Winning AI4TSP: Solving the Travelling Salesperson Problem with Self-programming Machines - Shopify
Shopify optimization expert Meinolf Sellmann collaborated with his former colleagues to win the AI4TSP Competition that focuses on solutions to the Travelling Salesperson Problem.
A Guide To CSS Debugging — Smashing Magazine
Debugging in CSS means figuring out what might be the problem when you have unexpected layout results. Today, Stephanie Eckles will look at a few categories bugs often fit into, see how you can evaluate the situation, and explore techniques that help prevent these bugs.
Measuring Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost
Contemporary x86 processors implement some variants of Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost. We decided to learn about the implications of these two technologies.
Branching Strategies in Git
In this article I'm going to talk about branching strategies and different types of Git branches. I’m also going to introduce you to two common branching workflows: Git Flow and GitHub Flow.
13 tiny and terrific entries from the js13kGames competition
If you think about it, 13kB isn’t really a lot. The image above is 81kB. This page weighs over 3MB (waaay more if you include the videos). That’s why it’s…
Tools to explore BGP
Tools to explore BGP
More details about the October 4 outage
Now that our platforms are up and running as usual after yesterday’s outage, I thought it would be worth sharing a little more detail on what happened and why — and most importantly, how we’re learning from it. This outage was triggered by the system that manages our global backbone network capacity. The backbone is […]
'date -d' vs. 'date -s', and 'show foo' vs. 'clear foo'
Local Testing A Serverless API (API Gateway And Lambda) — Smashing Magazine
Have you ever struggled with testing cloud services locally? Specifically, have you ever struggled with locally testing an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS? In this article, Tom Hudson shares a quick overview of how easy it is to quickly set up your project to test locally before deploying to AWS.
Announcing Access Temporary Authentication
Starting today, you can add new policies in Cloudflare Access that grant temporary access to specific users based on approvals for a set of predefined administrators.
Quickly Testing CSS Fallbacks
Dumb trick alert!
Animation Techniques for Adding and Removing Items From a Stack
Animating elements with CSS can either be quite easy or quite difficult depending on what you are trying to do. Changing the background color of a button when
ShopTalk Goes Video
Dave and I slapped up a little videos section of the ShopTalk website. Twelve so far! They are short-ish, between 10-20 minutes, each focused on one fairly
A new public beta of GitHub Releases: How we’re improving the release experience
GitHub Releases has a new look and updated tools to make it easier for open source communities to create and share high-quality releases with auto-generated release notes.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 4th, 2021 - High Scalability -
Hey, HighScalability is here again! The circulatory system of the internet. @tylermorganwall Love this Stuff? I need your support on Patreon to keep this stuff going. Sorry for the long gap in posting, but I’ve been building a new app. I’m looking for testers for my new iOS fitness app: Max reHIT Workout. It guides you through proven reduced-exertion high-intensity interval workouts. If that inter
Introducing the new kentcdodds.com
This site just experienced a huge rewrite and I want to show you around a bit.
Update about the October 4th outage
To all the people and businesses around the world who depend on us, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused by today’s outage across our platforms. We’ve been working as hard as we can to restore access, and our systems are now back up and running. The underlying cause of this outage also impacted many […]
In the news today: *munch munch munch*
How To Build An Expandable Accessible Gallery — Smashing Magazine
One of the use cases for using CSS Grid is to display a gallery of images, but a gallery on its own may not be that exciting. In this article, Silvestar Bistrović will be looking at how to set up a gallery that is expandable as well as accessible with a few tips and tricks along the way. Let’s get started!
The secret to Cloudflare’s pace of Innovation
How do we get so much stuff out so quickly? That we are able to innovate — and innovate so quickly — is no happy accident. In fact, this capability has been very deliberately built into the DNA of Cloudflare.
Two Weeks Later: Finding and Eliminating Long Tail Latencies
A little over two weeks 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.
All my zines are now available in print!
All my zines are now available in print!
May I ask who’s calling, please? A recent rise in VoIP DDoS attacks
Over the past month, multiple Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers have been targeted by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from entities claiming to be REvil.
Web3 — A vision for a decentralized web
In this blog we start to explain Web3 in the context of the web's evolution, and how Cloudflare might help to support it.
Announcing The Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways Private Beta: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse and Decentralized Finance for Everyone
Cloudflare announces the Private Beta of their Web3 gateways for Ethereum and IPFS. Unlocking the Metaverse, Web3, and Decentralized Finance for every developer.
Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare
Learn how to build Web3 applications with Cloudflare’s new open-source template.
Links on React and JavaScript II
How To Use The Vite Build Tool with React — Vite is hot, in part, because it's based on esbuild and wickedly fast. It's from Evan You of Vue fame, but it's
Using the platform
I'm certainly not dogmatic about it, but I think if you can pull of a project with literally zero build process, it feels good while working on it and feels very good when you come back to it months/years later and can just pick up and go.