Introducing Edge Config: Globally distributed, instant configuration
Historical announcement for Edge Config public beta, updated with current guidance for reading configuration from Vercel Functions and Routing Middleware.
Independent report shows: moving to Cloudflare can cut your carbon footprint
Preliminary study results find Cloudflare product to be up to 90% more carbon efficient than equivalent on premise hardware.
Cloudflare achieves FedRAMP authorization to secure more of the public sector
Cloudflare for Government expands Cloudflare’s ability to protect and secure the Public Sector
More bots, more trees
Cloudflare’s Bot Fight Mode caught 6x more bots in 2022, and we’re contributing to a new tree planting project in West Bengal.
Historical emissions offsets (and Scope 3 sneak preview)
Today, we are excited to announce our first step toward offsetting our historic emissions by investing in 6,060 MTs worth of reforestation carbon offsets as part of the Pacajai Reduction of Emissions
How we redesigned our offices to be more sustainable
As we reimagine how our physical office spaces support the work we do at Cloudflare, sustainable design and operations is at the forefront of our design philosophy and one of the underlying premises that affects all aspects of our workplaces.
A more sustainable end-of-life for your legacy hardware appliances with Cloudflare and Iron Mountain
Today, as part of Cloudflare’s Impact Week, we’re excited to announce an opportunity for Cloudflare customers to make it easier to decommission and dispose of their used hardware appliances sustainably.
How we’re making Cloudflare’s infrastructure more sustainable
Our hardware sustainability initiative encapsulates using hardware components for as long as possible, recycling them responsibly when it is time to decommission them, and selecting the most power-efficient options for our workloads.
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA.
Shopify Embraces Rust for Systems Programming - Shopify
Shopify is adopting Rust as our systems programming language, and joining the Rust Foundation.
Using SvelteKit 1.0 on Vercel
SvelteKit is a full-stack framework built on the Svelte compiler that provides directory-based routing, SSR, static site generation, and zero-configuration deployment on Vercel for fast, lightweight web applications.
Project Safekeeping – protecting the world’s most vulnerable infrastructure with Zero Trust
Cloudflare’s mission is to help make a better Internet. Starting December 13, 2022, we will help support these vulnerable infrastructure by providing our enterprise-level Zero Trust cybersecurity
The US government is working on an “Internet for all” plan. We’re on board.
The US government has a $65 billion program to get all Americans on the Internet. It’s a great initiative.
How Cloudflare helps protect small businesses
In this blog, we’ll share new research on how small businesses, including those using our free services, have leveraged Cloudflare services to make their businesses more secure and resistant to disruption.
The Montgomery, Alabama Internet Exchange is making the Internet faster. We’re happy to be there.
Internet Exchanges are a critical part of a strong Internet. Here’s the story of one of them.
Cloudflare expands Project Pangea to connect and protect (even) more community networks
A year and a half ago, Cloudflare launched Project Pangea to help provide Internet services to underserved communities. Today, we're sharing what we've learned by partnering with community networks, and announcing an expansion of the project.
A Few Times Container Size Queries Would Have Helped Me Out
CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it’s for little experiments or whatnot. They’ve
Figma Persona 2022: What’s your creative collaboration style?
Wrap up 2022 with some self-reflection and set creative intentions for the year ahead with Figma’s Persona Quiz.
Creating an accessible search experience with the QueryBuilder component
GitHub’s search inputs have several complex accessibility considerations. Let’s dive into what those are, how we addressed them, and talk about the standalone, reusable component that was ultimately built.
3 (More) Tips for Optimizing Apache Flink Applications - Shopify
Earlier this year, we shared our tips for optimizing large stateful Apache Flink applications. Below we’ll walk you through 3 more best practices.
Understanding Privacy: Protect Your Users, Protect Yourself — Smashing Magazine
All of us want to create inclusive, safe, and privacy-aware digital experiences, but where to begin? Our brand new Smashing Book, “Understanding Privacy,” written by Heather Burns, can help you lay the ground for future developers, designers, and project managers to build a better web for tomorrow. [Jump to the details](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/understanding-privacy-new-smashing-bo
Accessible Front-End Patterns For Responsive Tables (Part 2) — Smashing Magazine
There is no universal solution for making every kind of table responsive and usable on smaller screens, so we have to rely on various patterns, which Adrian explains in this two-part series.
Democratizing access to Zero Trust with Project Galileo
Learn how organizations under Project Galileo use Cloudflare Zero Trust to protect their organization from cyberattacks.
How Cloudflare helps secure the inboxes of democracy
Cloudflare email security tool worked hard in the 2022 midterm elections to ensure that the email inboxes of those seeking office were secure.
Expanding Area 1 email security to the Athenian Project
We are excited to share that we have grown our offering under the Athenian Project to include Cloudflare’s Area 1 email security suite to help state and local governments protect against a broad
Cloudflare Zero Trust for Project Galileo and the Athenian Project
Starting today, we are making the Cloudflare One Zero Trust suite available to teams that qualify for Projects Galileo or Athenian at no cost.
Two months later: Internet use in Iran during the Mahsa Amini Protests
A series of protests began in Iran on September 16, following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini — a 22-year-old who had been arrested for violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law. The protests and civil unrest have continued to this day.
The challenges of sanctioning the Internet
As governments continue to use sanctions as a foreign policy tool, we think it’s important that policymakers continue to hear from Internet infrastructure companies about how the legal framework is impacting their ability to support a global Internet.
The latest on attacks, traffic patterns and cyber protection in Ukraine
On February 24, 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, Cloudflare jumped into action to provide services that could help prevent potentially destructive cyber attacks and keep the global Internet flowing.
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer
Sara Soueidan with everything you need, from what screen reading options are out there all the way to setting up virtual machines for them, installing them,
Highlights from Git 2.39
Another new release of Git is here to end the year! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.39.
Open-sourcing Anonymous Credential Service
Meta has open-sourced Anonymous Credential Service (ACS), a highly available multitenant service that allows clients to authenticate in a de-identified manner. ACS enhances privacy and security while also being compute-conscious. By open-sourcing and fostering a community for ACS, we believe we can accelerate the pace of innovation in de-identified authentication. Data minimization — collecting th
The Future Of Design: Human-Powered Or AI-Driven? — Smashing Magazine
In this article, Keima Kai provides a brief history of AI in web design, explores its current implications for creativity, and offers suggestions for how web designers can stay ahead of the curve.
Building a viral application for your personal music festival
Learn how Anshay Saboo, a Computer Science student at USC, used Next.js and Vercel to launch Instafest fast and scale to 500,000 new users per hour.
Welcome to Cloudflare’s Impact Week
Over the course of this Impact Week, we will tell other stories about the way that the Internet, and Cloudflare specifically, provide an optimistic opportunity to improve our world.
Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle
This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise. As with the Exhibit H Twitter text message release , there are a lot of articles that quote bits of this, but the articles generally missing a lot of what happened and often paint a misleading picture of happened and t
New! Security Analytics provides a comprehensive view across all your traffic
Security Analytics gives you a security lens across all of your HTTP traffic, not only mitigated requests, allowing you to focus on what matters most: traffic deemed malicious but potentially not mitigated.
Stop attacks before they are known: making the Cloudflare WAF smarter
Today we are making the WAF smarter by increasing availability of our new machine learning powered enhancement, the WAF Attack Score!
Release Radar
Before you say it, yes, the October Release Radar was supposed to be shared in November. But with Hackatoberfest, GitHub Universe, Turkey Day, and in real life (IRL) conferences returning…
Alex Kim: Why I joined Cloudflare
I am excited to announce that as of November 1, I have joined Cloudflare as Country Manager of South Korea to help build a better Internet and to expand Cloudflare’s growing customer, partner, and local teams in Korea.
Animated Background Stripes That Transition on Hover
Learn to make background stripes that transition on hover, using a creative mix of CSS gradients, blend modes, and background sizing.
Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
Git Commit Uruguay: Lowering barriers to make software development more inclusive and diverse
We delivered two different courses specifically designed to help students in the lowest-income neighborhood of Montevideo, Uruguay learn how to use GitHub and understand the value of open source.
Hello from GitHub’s new Chief Product Officer
GitHub is in an exciting phase of our journey as the developer community grows significantly every day, and the needs of the community grow and change with it. Today we’re introducing our new Chief Product officer.
A debugging manifesto
A debugging manifesto
Three Essential Remote Work Practices for Engineering Teams - Shopify
It’s been around two and a half years since Shopify became a fully remote-first company. James Stanier shares three tips for succeeding remotely.
It’s Here! “Understanding Privacy,” A New Smashing Book Is Shipping Now — Smashing Magazine
“Understanding Privacy,” the new Smashing Book by Heather Burns, will help you create inclusive, safe and privacy-aware digital experiences. Print books are now shipping! [Jump to details](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/understanding-privacy-new-smashing-book/#about-the-book) and [get the book right away](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/printed-books/understanding-privacy/).
Migrate a large, open-source React application to Next.js and Vercel
Learn how we approached migrating the BBC's large, open-source React application to Next.js and Vercel to see both developer and user experience benefits.
Adding Box Shadows to WordPress Blocks and Elements
The CSS box-shadow and outline properties gained theme.json support in WordPress 6.1. Let's look at a few examples of how it works in real themes, and what options we have to apply these styles to WordPress blocks and elements.
GitHub Copilot is generally available for businesses
GitHub Copilot for Business is officially here with simple license management, organization-wide policy controls, and industry-leading privacy—all for $19 USD per user per month.
GitHub Availability Report: November 2022
In November, we experienced two incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted Codespaces in October.
Tips for analyzing logs
Tips for analyzing logs
Advent Calendars For Web Designers And Developers (2022 Edition) — Smashing Magazine
Are you ready for the countdown to Christmas? This year, the web community was once again busy creating tech advent calendars jam-packed with fantastic content to sweeten your days. But which ones to follow? We help you find the right one, whether you’re a front-end dev, UX designer, or content strategist.
New Elements features to help you increase conversion at checkout
Learn about improvements to Stripe Elements. Build a frictionless and relevant checkout experience designed to increase conversion. Get started today.
CSS is OK, I guess.
Nothing but ear-to-ear smiles as I was watching this video from @quayjn on YouTube. (No actual name in the byline, though I think it's Brian Katz if my paper
Faceting large result sets in PostgreSQL
Learn how to implement faceting in your PostgreSQL-based applications to narrow search results - very attractive for users.
New npm features for secure publishing and safe consumption
Now you can create tokens with fine-grained permissions for automating your publishing and organization management workflows. And a new code explorer allows you to view content of a package directly in the npm portal.
Planning in Bets: Risk Mitigation at Scale - Shopify
What do you do with a finite amount of time to deal with an infinite number of things that can go wrong? This post breaks down a high-level risk mitigation process into four questions that can be applied to nearly any scenario in order to help you make the best use of your time and resources available.
Accessible Front-End Patterns For Responsive Tables (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
There is no universal solution for making every kind of table responsive and usable on smaller screens, so we have to rely on various patterns, which Adrian explains in this two-part series.
AWS and Vercel: Accelerating innovation with serverless computing
Vercel's edge-first serverless platform accelerates development with Preview Deployments and delivers production performance at scale, as proven by The Washington Post's seamless US Midterm Elections coverage.