by Junade Ali

by Filippo Valsorda

This piece was originally written for the Gopher Academy advent series. We are grateful to them for allowing us to republish it here.

by Ivan Babrou

The following blog post describes a debugging adventure on Cloudflare’s Mesos-based cluster. This internal cluster is primarily used to process log file information so that Cloudflare customers have analytics…

by Marek Majkowski

Recent headline grabbing DDoS attacks provoked heated debates in the DNS community. Everyone has strong opinions on how to harden DNS to avoid downtime in the future. Is it better to use a single DNS provider or multiple? What…

by John Graham-Cumming

Back in March my colleague Marek wrote about a Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks where we were seeing 400Gbps attacks occurring mostly at the weekends. We speculated that attackers were busy with…

by David Wragg

Cloudflare has an automatic image optimization feature called Polish, available to customers on paid plans. It recompresses images and removes unnecessary data so that they are delivered to browsers more quickly.

by Michael Nelson

On Wednesday afternoon, Cloudflare and other Internet companies noticed that the West African country of Gambia had dropped off the Internet — the day before the presidential…

by Zack Bloom

Like most of you, I first heard of Cloudflare via this blog. I read about HTTP/2, Railgun, the Hundredth Data Center, and Keyless SSL — but I never thought I would work here. I, along with my co-founder…

by John Graham-Cumming

An abbreviated version of this post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

Looking back over 2016, we saw the good and bad that comes with widespread use and abuse of the Internet.

by Junade Ali