Top Stories published by Cloudflare in January of 2017

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…


The Porcupine Attack: investigating millions of junk requests

by Marek Majkowski

We extensively monitor our network and use multiple systems that give us visibility including external monitoring and internal alerts when things go wrong. One of the most useful…


Token Authentication for Cached Private Content and APIs

by Michael Tremante

While working to make the Internet a better place, we also want to make it easier for our customers to have control of their content and APIs, and who has access to them. Using…


Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick

by Matthew Prince

In 2017, we’ve predicted that more than half of the traffic to Cloudflare’s network will come from mobile devices. Even if they are formatted to be displayed on a…


Firebolt: the fastest, safest ads on the web

by Dane Knecht

Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. That means a faster, more secure, open Internet world-wide. We have millions of customers using our services like free SSL, an advanced WAF, the latest…

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