Top Stories published by Cloudflare in 2015

How to receive a million packets per second

by Marek Majkowski

Last week during a casual conversation I overheard a colleague saying: “The Linux network stack is slow! You can’t expect it to do more than 50 thousand packets per second per core!”


DNSSEC Done Right

by Olafur Gudmundsson

This blog post is probably more personal than the usual posts here. It’s about why I joined CloudFlare.

I’ve been working on DNSSEC evolution for a long time as implementor, IETF working group chair, protocol experimenter…


How to Talk to Your Parents About Encryption

by Ryan Hodson

It’s December 25th, which means most of you are probably at home visiting with family. I asked a few of the security engineers here at CloudFlare how they explain their jobs when they’re home for the holidays…


Ensuring the web is for everyone

by John Graham-Cumming

This is the text of an internal email I sent at CloudFlare that we thought worth sharing more widely. I annotated it a bit with links that weren’t in the original.