Developer-Platform
Cloudflare
Fri Oct 25 2024
Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks
Hyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Wo...
DDoS
Wed Oct 23 2024
Training a million models per day to save customers of all sizes from DDoS attacks
In this post we will describe how we use anomaly detection to watch for novel DDoS attacks.
Engineering
Tue Oct 22 2024
Building Vectorize, a distributed vector database, on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform
Vectorize was recently upgraded and made generally available, now supporting indexes of up to 5 million vectors, delivering faster responses...
Security
Fri Apr 12 2024
How we ensure Cloudflare customers aren't affected by Let's Encrypt's certificate chain change
Let’s Encrypt’s cross-signed chain will be expiring in September.
Security-Week
Wed Mar 06 2024
Linux kernel security tunables everyone should consider adopting
This post illustrates some of the Linux Kernel features, which are helping us to keep our production systems more secure.
Linux
Thu Feb 08 2024
connect() - why are you so slow?
This is our story of what we learned about the connect() implementation for TCP in Linux.
AI
Wed Dec 06 2023
How we used OpenBMC to support AI inference on GPUs around the world
Fri Nov 17 2023
How to execute an object file: Part 4, AArch64 edition
The initial posts are dedicated to the x86 architecture.
Deep-Dive
Fri Oct 06 2023
Virtual networking 101: Bridging the gap to understanding TAP
Tap devices were historically used for VPN clients.
UDP
Mon Jun 26 2023
Lost in transit: debugging dropped packets from negative header lengths
Oxy
Fri May 26 2023
How Oxy uses hooks for maximum extensibility
TCP
Thu May 25 2023
Unbounded memory usage by TCP for receive buffers, and how we fixed it
We are constantly monitoring and optimizing the performance and resource utilization of our systems.
Developer-Week
Thu May 18 2023
Building Cloudflare on Cloudflare
Cloudflare was originally built as native services, but we’re building more and more of it on Cloudflare itself.