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Engineering — Get updates on the health of your origin where you need them

Get updates on the health of your origin where you need them

We are thrilled to announce Health Checks availability within Cloudflare’s centralized Notification tab, available to all Pro, Business, and Enterprise customers. Now, you can get critical alerts on the health of your origin without checking your inbox!

DADarius, ArielleDarius, Arielle·March 22, 2022Engineering
Engineering — Improving your GitHub feed

Improving your GitHub feed

Today, we are rolling out a new beta version of GitHub’s home feed, making it easier to discover projects, developers and more across GitHub.

BWBruce WilliamsBruce Williams·March 22, 2022Engineering
Distributed — Introducing the GHES repository cache

Introducing the GHES repository cache

If you’re a GHES customer with heavy read traffic on your monorepo, check out the repository cache, especially if you have CI workloads distributed around the world.

MCMatt CooperMatt Cooper·March 22, 2022Distributed
Networking — Using Cloudflare One to Secure IoT devices

Using Cloudflare One to Secure IoT devices

We asked ourselves: can we use our own products to secure IoT devices themselves — even on the same network as production systems? Using Cloudflare One, the answer is yes.

MDMolly, Derek ChamorroMolly, Derek Chamorro·March 18, 2022Networking
Security — Commitment to Customer Security

Commitment to Customer Security

Cloudflare has been hooked on securing customers globally since its inception. Our services protect customer traffic and data as well as our own, and we are continuously improving and expanding those services to respond to the changing threat landscape of the Internet

LMLing, Matt GallagherLing, Matt Gallagher·March 18, 2022Security
Networking — A bridge to Zero Trust

A bridge to Zero Trust

Today, we’re excited to announce the ability to route traffic from user devices with our lightweight roaming agent (WARP) installed to any network connected with our Magic IP-layer tunnels

AAnnikaAnnika·March 18, 2022Networking
Security — Securing Cloudflare Using Cloudflare

Securing Cloudflare Using Cloudflare

Cloudflare is committed to bolstering our security posture with best-in-class solutions — which is why we often turn to our own products as any other Cloudflare customer would.

MEMolly, Evan JohnsonMolly, Evan Johnson·March 18, 2022Security
Networking — Cloudflare Observability

Cloudflare Observability

Being a single pane of glass for all network activity has always been one of Cloudflare’s goals. Today, we’re outlining the future vision for Cloudflare observability.

TNTanushree, NatashaTanushree, Natasha·March 18, 2022Networking
Networking — Introducing SSH command logging

Introducing SSH command logging

We built SSH command logging into Cloudflare Zero Trust to provide SSH visibility at a network layer instead of relying on software on individual machines

CCloudflare·March 18, 2022Networking
Networking — Packet captures at the edge

Packet captures at the edge

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of on-demand packet captures from Cloudflare’s global network

ANAnnika, NadinAnnika, Nadin·March 17, 2022Networking
Engineering — Release Radar

Release Radar

Our community has shipped lots of open source project updates in the last month. Here’s a few of our staff picks.

MDMichelle DukeMichelle Duke·March 17, 2022Engineering
SRE & Ops — Detecting silent errors in the wild: Combining two novel approaches to quickly detect silent data corruptions at scale

Detecting silent errors in the wild: Combining two novel approaches to quickly detect silent data corruptions at scale

Silent data corruptions (SDCs), data errors that go undetected by the larger system, are a widespread problem for large-scale infrastructure systems. Left undetected, these types of corruptions can cause data loss and propagate across the stack and manifest as application-level problems. Silent data corruptions (SDC) in hardware impact computational integrity for large-scale applications. Sources

CWChris Wiltz·March 17, 2022SRE & Ops
SRE & Ops — Using Terraform to Manage Infrastructure - Shopify

Using Terraform to Manage Infrastructure - Shopify

Large applications are often a mix of code your team has written and third-party applications your team needs to manage. These third-party applications could be things like AWS or Docker. In my team’s case, it’s Twilio TaskRouter. The configuration of these services may not change as often as your app code does, but when it does, the process is fraught with the potential for errors. This is becaus

SEShopify Engineering·March 17, 2022SRE & Ops
Frontend — Claymorphism: Will It Stick Around? — Smashing Magazine

Claymorphism: Will It Stick Around? — Smashing Magazine

This fresh new design trend has been picking up steam with the rising popularity of colorful inflated 3D graphics in web illustrations and with the latest Virtual Reality projects like “Horizon Worlds”. Let’s see if there is room for Claymorphism on the UI, and how we can create this effect with CSS.

ABAdrian BeceAdrian Bece·March 16, 2022Frontend
AI & ML — Improving the WAF with Machine Learning

Improving the WAF with Machine Learning

Today we are excited to complement managed rulesets (such as OWASP and Cloudflare Managed) with a new tool aimed at identifying bypasses and malicious payloads without human involvement, and before they are exploited

CCloudflare·March 15, 2022AI & ML
Security — A new WAF experience

A new WAF experience

The security landscape is moving fast. We invited users to help us shape a new WAF experience that enables us to evolve WAF to meet their demands and use cases

XMXmflsct, MruXmflsct, Mru·March 15, 2022Security
Engineering — Cloudflare Zaraz supports CSP

Cloudflare Zaraz supports CSP

If you have Cloudflare Zaraz enabled on your website, you don’t have to ask yourself twice if you should enable CSP because there’s no harmful collision between CSP & Cloudflare Zaraz

SBSimona BadoiuSimona Badoiu·March 15, 2022Engineering
Frontend — Delightful React File/Directory Structure

Delightful React File/Directory Structure

How should we structure components and other files in our React apps? I've iterated my way to a solution I'm really happy with. In this blog post, I'll share how it works, what the tradeoffs are, and how I mitigate them.

JWJosh W. Comeau·March 15, 2022Frontend
SRE & Ops — VESPA: Static profiling for binary optimization

VESPA: Static profiling for binary optimization

What the research is: Recent research has demonstrated that binary optimization is important for achieving peak performance for various applications. For instance, the state-of-the-art BOLT binary optimizer developed at Meta, which is part of the LLVM Compiler Project, significantly improves the performance of highly optimized binaries produced using compilers’ most aggressive optimizations, such

CWChris Wiltz·March 15, 2022SRE & Ops
Frontend — Creating a React Library for Consistent Data Visualization - Shopify

Creating a React Library for Consistent Data Visualization - Shopify

At Shopify, we tell a lot of stories through data visualization. This is the driving force behind business decisions—not only for our merchants, but also for teams within Shopify. With more than 10,000 Shopify employees, though, it is only natural that different teams started using different tools to display data.

SEShopify Engineering·March 15, 2022Frontend
Security — Investigating threats using the Cloudflare Security Center

Investigating threats using the Cloudflare Security Center

The data we glean from attacks trains our machine learning models and improves the efficacy of our network and application security products, but historically hasn’t been available to query directly. This week, we’re changing that

PJPatrick, JessePatrick, Jesse·March 14, 2022Security
Engineering — Introducing: Backup Certificates

Introducing: Backup Certificates

We are excited to introduce backup certificates to increase reliability of our service for anyone using the Cloudflare platform in the event of key compromises or related issues

DDinaDina·March 14, 2022Engineering
SRE & Ops — Get full observability into your Cloudflare logs with New Relic

Get full observability into your Cloudflare logs with New Relic

Correlating Cloudflare logs across your stack in New Relic One is powerful for monitoring and debugging in order to keep services safe and reliable. We’re excited to have partnered with New Relic to create a direct integration that provides this visibility

TMTanushree, Mike Neville O NeillTanushree, Mike Neville O Neill·March 14, 2022SRE & Ops