One of the services that CloudFlare provides to paying customers is called Polish. Polish automatically recompresses images cached by CloudFlare to ensure that they are as small as possible and can be delivered to web browsers as quickly as possible. We’ve recently rolled out a new version of Polish that uses updated techniques (and was […]
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Listo! Medellin, Colombia: CloudFlare’s 28th Data Center
“What’s that? CloudFlare’s 28th data center is in Medellin, Colombia!?” With the World Cup at an end, so too is our latest round of data center expansion. Following deployments in Madrid, Milan and São Paulo, we are thrilled to announce our 28th data center in Medellin, Colombia. Most of Colombia’s 22 million Internet users are […]
Introducing CFSSL – CloudFlare’s PKI toolkit
Today we’re proud to introduce CFSSL—our open source toolkit for everything TLS/SSL. CFSSL is used internally by CloudFlare for bundling TLS/SSL certificates chains, and for our internal Certificate Authority infrastructure. We use this tool for all our TLS certificates. Creating a certificate bundle is a common pain point for website operators, and doing it right […]
Parabéns, Brasil! CloudFlare’s 27th Data Center Now Live
“Chile may have scored a CloudFlare data center first, but at least we’re still in the Cup” Brazil is home to not only the most successful national football team in history (Pentacampeão), but also to the most technologically advanced World Cup ever hosted. From vanishing foam and goal-line technology, to the biological passport and the […]
Making code better with reviews
In the past we’ve written about how CloudFlare isn’t afraid to rip out and replace chunks of code that have proved to be hard to maintain or have simply reach end of life. For example, we wrote a brand new DNS server and replaced our old DNS infrastructure with it. Doing so was greatly helped […]
Q&A with Ryan Lackey
Lackey being hoisted onto Sealand in the North Sea circa 2000 How did you get into computer security? I started using the Internet when I was young—in the early 1990s, before I was a teenager. I was drawn to security for two main reasons: First, I was interested in how individuals could stand up to […]
CloudFlare Acquires CryptoSeal
We’re excited to announce that CloudFlare has acquired the Trusted Computing and virtual private network (VPN) as a service company CryptoSeal. CryptoSeal was founded by Ryan Lackey, a well-known engineer in the security community whom we’ve admired for some time. The company was funded by Y Combinator and angel investors from the security community. At […]
Naming Project Galileo
What’s in a Name Earlier today, CloudFlare announced Project Galileo to protect free speech on the Web by using its sophisticated anti-DDoS resources. Seventeen (at last count) free speech, public interest, and civil society organizations are helping us identify at-risk, in-need websites for the Project. If one these websites comes under attack, CloudFlare will make […]
CloudFlare is PCI Certified
Great news for everyone using CloudFlare on an e-commerce site, or a site accepting or processing credit card transactions. After undergoing a Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) 2.0 security control assessment, we’ve been certified as a Level 1 service provider. Achieving Level 1 status requires an assessment of our security controls by […]
CloudFlare Meetups: Set your mind on fire.
Education, expertise, and community: these themes define Meetups at CloudFlare. Meetups in our office bring together industry leaders, academics, and field experts to examine topics ranging from the Go programming language, to databases, to cryptography, and more. We’re creating a space for people interested in learning about, and hashing-out, specialized topics together; check out CloudFlare’s […]