Archive of stories published by Cloudflare

The Road to QUIC

by Alessandro Ghedini

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet…


HPACK: the silent killer (feature) of HTTP/2

by Vlad Krasnov

If you have experienced HTTP/2 for yourself, you are probably aware of the visible performance gains possible with HTTP/2 due to features like stream multiplexing, explicit stream dependencies, and Server Push.


How we made our DNS stack 3x faster

by Tom Arnfeld

Cloudflare is now well into its 6th year and providing authoritative DNS has been a core part of infrastructure from the start. We’ve since grown to be the largest and one of the fastest managed DNS services on the Internet…

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