Top Stories published by Cloudflare in 2017

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…


How and why the leap second affected Cloudflare DNS

by John Graham-Cumming

At midnight UTC on New Year’s Day, deep inside Cloudflare’s custom RRDNS software, a number went negative when it should always have been, at worst, zero. A little later this negative value…


Understanding Our Cache and the Web Cache Deception Attack

by Joshua Liebow-Feeser

About a month ago, security researcher Omer Gil published the details of an attack that he calls the Web Cache Deception attack. It works against sites that sit behind a reverse…


Introducing SSL for SaaS

by Patrick R. Donahue

If you’re running a SaaS company, you know how important it is that your application is performant, highly available, and hardened against attack. Your customers — and your revenue stream — depend on it. Putting your app behind a solution…

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