
Today we’re proud to announce our beta release of quick search for the Cloudflare dashboard, our first ever cross-dashboard search tool to help you navigate our products and features.

So you want an auto-playing looping video without sound? In popular vernacular this is the very meaning of the word GIF. The word has stuck around but the

A round-up of updates and improvements to Figma and FigJam

Learn best practices on how to roll out centrally managed, developer-centric application security with a third party CI/CD system like Jenkins or ADO.
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Kevin Alwell·September 28, 2022Security 
The customer journey is not limited to a website alone. Simply by combining the world of website design and telephony, far better results can be obtained for your organization. And thanks to the similarities and mutual benefits, it is an easy step to take.

Forester has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 Web Application Firewall (WAF) providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence.

Building and scaling a startup is hard work. Apply to the $1.25BN Workers Launchpad funding program for an opportunity to pitch leading VCs and other perks

Learn about four new products that will eventually replace Page Rules by putting more power into the hands of users.

Get an inside look on the D1 experience today, what the team is currently working on and what’s coming up!

We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps

workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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Kenton Varda·September 27, 2022Frontend 
Configuration Rules is the new and improved way for Cloudflare customers to control and manipulate features that are enabled or disabled for specific requests on their zone.
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Matt Bullock, Sam Marsh·September 27, 2022Engineering 
Cloudflare Stream now supports live streaming over WebRTC to unlimited concurrent viewers, using open standards WHIP and WHEP, with zero dependencies or client SDKs necessary.
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Kyle Boutette, Kenny Luong·September 27, 2022Performance 
Origin Rules is a dedicated product for ‘where does this traffic go where it leaves Cloudflare.’ Customers are able to match on an HTTP request using filters and override the host, port, SNI, and the origin a request resolves to.
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Matt Bullock, Sam Marsh·September 27, 2022Networking 
We have spent the last ten years learning how customers use Page Rules to customize their cached content, and it’s clear the time is ripe for evolving rules-based caching on Cloudflare

The Startup Plan now has an expanded product basket and broader eligibility criteria, which means more startups now qualify for the program.
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Jade Q Wang, Matthew Shimizu·September 27, 2022Engineering 
Cloudflare Queues is a message queuing service that allows applications to reliably send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers

With Dynamic redirects, users can redirect visitors to another webpage or website based upon hundreds of options such as the visitor's country of origin or language, without having to write a single

If 1000's of users constantly poll the database, a lot of load is caused for no benefit. LISTEN / NOTIFY is a better way, find out how.
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig·September 27, 2022Databases 
Pair programming is one of the most important tools we use while mentoring early talent in Shopify's Dev Degree program. It’s an agile software development technique where two people work together, either to share context, solve a problem, or learn from one another.

You don’t need a framework for everything, but if you use one, this article will help you use it in the most performant way.

Better together: 5G mobile networks and Cloudflare’s all-in-one SASE platform
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Mike Conlow, Silverlock·September 26, 2022Networking 
We’ve been defending customers from Internet of Things botnets for years now, and it’s time to turn the tides: we’re bringing the same security behind our Zero Trust platform to IoT

We’re announcing the first Zero Trust SIM: the next major part of Cloudflare One, combining both software and hardware layers to rethink mobile device security for organizations
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Silverlock, James Allworth·September 26, 2022Security 
The wave is probably one of the most difficult shapes to make in CSS. We always try to approximate it with properties like border-radius and lots of magic
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Temani Afif·September 26, 2022Frontend 
SmashingConf NYC is back! A friendly, inclusive conference for designers and front-end engineers who can’t wait to learn and be inspired. October 10–13, 2022. Get your ticket!

Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we'll celebrate our 12th birthday. As has become our tradition, we'll be announcing a series of products that we think of as our gifts back to the Internet
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Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn·September 25, 2022Engineering 
We made a lot of new products Generally Available this week, so in case you missed it, here’s a recap

Nobody likes CAPTCHAs. Now, with iOS 16 on iPhones, a small enabled toggle can make them disappear while improving privacy on your device. Here’s how to check if it’s “on” and try it out

If we browse the WordPress theme directory, a majority of themes showcase cover images. It is a feature in popular demand. The cover page trend is true even

Three new Campus Experts are joining the fall 2022 batch of the MLH Fellowship to work with open source maintainers and get real-world experience.
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Ashley Bass, Juan Pablo Flores Cortés·September 23, 2022Engineering 
In this article, Dave Feldman shares his lessons learned and the experiments has done as a multidisciplinary designer-founder-CEO at an early-stage startup. Let’s take a look at what it is that makes a great design process for teams of any size.

With Regional Services, we are thrilled to expand our coverage to these countries in Asia Pacific, allowing more customers to use Cloudflare by giving them precise control over which parts of the Cloudflare network are able to perform advanced functions

Third party tools are the only thing you can’t control on your website, unless you use Managed Components with Cloudflare Zaraz

API Shield customers can save, update, and monitor the performance of API endpoints

The Iranian government has disrupted Internet connectivity in response to recent protests over the death of a woman while in police custody

Logpush jobs can now be filtered to contain only logs of interest. Also, you can receive alerts when jobs are failing, as well as get statistics on the health of your jobs

SVG is the best format for icons on a website, there is no doubt about that. It allows you to have sharp icons no matter the screen pixel density, you can
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Louis Hoebregts·September 22, 2022Frontend 
We’re launching GitHub for Startups to give your startup the tools needed to go from idea to unicorn status on the world’s largest developer platform.

Shopify share with you the challenges we faced building Android widgets and how we solved them.

Shopify shares with you how we approached building iOS widgets and some of the challenges we faced.

If you’re considering learning Angular, this article sums up what William Juan wished he knew when he started, including the mistakes made and lessons learned the hard way.
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William Juan·September 22, 2022Frontend 
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R2 is now generally available!! R2 gives developers object storage minus the egress fees

Stream Live is now out of beta, available to everyone, and ready for production traffic at scale

Log Storage on R2: a cost-effective solution to store event logs for any of our products

Cloudflare Images now supports storing and delivering SVG files
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Paulo, Yevgen·September 21, 2022Frontend 
Custom Domains are now in Generally Available! Today we go through Part 1 in a series on building completely serverless applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform

With Workers for Platforms, your customers can build custom logic to meet their needs right into your application. We’re excited to announce that Workers for Platforms is now in GA for all Enterprise customers

On September 16, GitHub Security learned that threat actors were targeting GitHub users with a phishing campaign by impersonating CircleCI to harvest user credentials and two-factor codes. While GitHub itself was not affected, the campaign has impacted many victim organizations.
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Alexis Wales·September 21, 2022Security 
Students have the opportunity to connect with GitHub employees at GitHub Universe 2022 through Micro-Mentoring sessions hosted by GitHub Social Impact.

The ReadME Project & Podcast evolve with community expert voices and topics to stoke discussion about the culture and craft of software development.

As the home for developers, we understand the key role our communities play in steering digital transformation and maintaining societal infrastructure. That’s why we choose to drive and support policies and initiatives like the Copenhagen Pledge on Tech for Democracy. We’re committed to working with like-minded organizations, governments, and civil society to make digital technologies work for dem

Live, or inline validation in web forms is useful when it works, but frustrating when it fails. Too often it leads to an endless stream of disruptive error messages or dead-ends without any chance of getting out. Let’s fix it.

Cloudflare started using Area 1 in 2020 and proceeded with acquiring the company in 2022. We were most impressed how phishing, responsible for 90+% of cyberattacks, basically became a non-issue overnight when we deployed Area 1. But our vision is much bigger than preventing phishing attacks

Data Loss Prevention is now available for Cloudflare contract customers, giving customers more options to protect their sensitive data

Connect and scan your third-party SaaS apps for file leaks, misconfigurations, and Shadow IT, all in just a few clicks. Cloudflare CASB now Generally Available

Defend any network from browser-borne threats with Cloudflare Browser Isolation by connecting legacy firewalls over IPsec / GRE

What's the problem with using PostgreSQL database side sequences to create unique invoice numbers to send to clients? Let's find out.
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig·September 20, 2022Databases