Top Stories published by Cloudflare in April of 2017
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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…


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…


Ecommerce websites on Cloudflare: best practices

by Nick B

Cloudflare provides numerous benefits to ecommerce sites, including advanced DDOS protection and an industry-leading Web Application Firewall (WAF) that helps secure your transactions and protect customers’…


Cloudflare Rate Limiting — Insight, Control, and Mitigation against Layer 7 DDoS Attacks

by Timothy Fong.

Today, Cloudflare is extending its Rate Limiting service by allowing any of our customers to sign up. Our Enterprise customers have…


A Private Network for IoT Devices

by Dani Grant

In October, we wrote about a 1.75M rps DDoS attack we mitigated on our network, launched by 52,467 unique IP’s, mostly hacked CCTV cameras.


AES-CBC is going the way of the dodo

by Vlad Krasnov

A little over a year ago, Nick Sullivan talked about the beginning of the end for AES-CBC cipher suites, following a plethora of attacks on this cipher mode.


Data Transfers Post-Brexit: Smoothing the Transition

by Caroline Greer

The average internet user consumes vast amounts of data on a daily basis but rarely — unless an avid follower of Max Schrems — thinks about how the data flows or the mechanisms and legal…


Curaçao and Djibouti — two new Cloudflare datacenters located where undersea cables meet

by Martin J Levy

Cloudflare has just turned up two new datacenters (numbers 108 and 109). Both are around halfway between the Tropic of Cancer and the…

These were the top 10 stories published by Cloudflare in April of 2017. You can also dive into daily archives for April of 2017 by using the calendar at the top of this page.