On the WWW team, we’re responsible for Cloudflare’s REST APIs, account management services and the dashboard experience. We take security and PCI compliance seriously, which means we move quickly to stay up to date with regulations and relevant laws.
A recent compliance project had a requirement of detecting certain end user request data at the edge, and reacting to it both in API responses as well as visually in the dashboard. We realized that this was an excellent opportunity to dogfood Cloudflare Workers.
In this blog post, we’ll break down the problem we solved using a single worker that we shipped to multiple hosts, share the annotated source code of our worker, and share some best practices and tips and tricks we discovered along the way.
Since being deployed, our worker has served over 400 million requests for both calls to api.cloudflare.com and the www.cloudflare.com dashboard.
First, we needed to detect when a client was connecting to our services using an outdated TLS protocol. Next, we wanted to pass this information deeper into our application stack so that we could act upon it and Continue reading
There has been plenty of change throughout the evolution of information technology. Now it's time for the corporate world to catch up and reshape how they do business and serve their customers.
It’s that time again! Tune in on May 7 at 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST for our monthly CCNA Kickoff session with expert instructor Keith Bogart.
This is a FREE session in which Keith (CCIE #4923) will present everything you need to know to get started on your CCNA journey.
What Keith will cover in this months webinar:
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The pre-owned car marketplace app sometimes processes upwards of 20,000 vehicles in a busy weekend.
The year 2017 was an important milestone in moving forward the European agenda for Digital for Development (D4D). The European Commission (EC) paper on mainstreaming digital technologies into EU development policy and the European Council conclusions on Digital for Development have activated the European development community to share opinions and ideas on how to help bridge the global digital divide.
In the past month, we have had a couple of open events in Brussels to discuss this important issue. The European Parliament’s EPP group hosted a public hearing on Digitalisation for Development to collect ideas and to push for more progress. Two weeks later, the EC held the first multistakeholder meeting for Digital4Development with a focus on Africa.
Building a Balanced Agenda
There are a number of pillars of activities that most stakeholders agree on. These include Internet access with a focus on last mile; Internet as an enabler across different sectors; skills; and entrepreneurship. During the recent meetings, the EC, the national development agencies and the private sector showcased impressive and innovative digitalisation programmes.
However, several stakeholders pointed out that while it is important to continue to invest in Internet access, this is no longer enough. We need Continue reading
In this Network Collective Short Take, guest commentator Nick Buraglio shares his thoughts on field area networking after watching Cisco’s presentation on the topic at Networking Field Day 17. You can see the original NFD17 presentation here: https://vimeo.com/253197120
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David Barroso was sick-and-tired of using ZX Spectrum of Network Automation and decided to create an alternative with similar functionality but a proper programming language instead of YAML dictionaries masquerading as one. The result: Brigade, an interesting network automation tool we discussed in Episode 90 of Software Gone Wild.
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Software-defined storage is rising to the top of the storage market, but before selecting a solution, it’s important to determine the features and capabilities for your specific set of needs.
The company’s recent transition to a SaaS subscription model proves favorable as it reported an 11 percent increase in revenue year over year, along with several deals in the first quarter of 2018.
Businesses today have to get applications to market faster than ever, but with the same or less budget. Because of this requirement, modern data centers are evolving to support a change in application delivery. In order to get applications to market faster and increase revenue, applications that were once built as one monolithic entity are becoming segmented and deployed separately, communicating amongst themselves. The pieces of applications, sometimes referred to as microservices, are often deployed as containers. This results in much faster deployment and a quicker update cycle. However, the network teams operating the infrastructure supporting the applications often have no visibility into how their networks are being utilized, and thus are making design, operations and troubleshooting decisions blindly. Now, Cumulus NetQ provides this visibility from container deployments all the way to the spine switches and beyond — accelerating operations and providing the crucial information to efficiently design and operate the networks running containers.
Traditionally, the new application design and deployment method using containers makes operating and managing the infrastructure to support them very challenging. The containers often have to talk with each other within or across data centers or to the outside world. An Continue reading
At a time when we notice increasing and alarming threats to media freedom around the world, World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) is more pertinent today than ever before. We therefore can’t afford to celebrate this important day without both considering the damage done to the free press over the past year and intensifying our efforts to protect journalists and the future of journalism around the world.
To ensure that we can continue to celebrate the media’s vital role in democracies in the future, we must tackle the increasing number of Internet shutdowns around the world and find better ways to secure the safety of journalists.
Let’s start with the latter. The surveillance of journalists, in particular, has profound implications for democratic institutions, including freedom of the press. It threatens journalists’ ability to confidently and confidentially work with sources and to unlock information about controversial issues. It therefore hinders their ability to play their roles as watchdogs in democratic or undemocratic, developed or developing societies alike. But reports indicate that more and more journalists are at risk of facing state or societal surveillance.
Encryption offers a vital and relatively simple defense for such intrusions. Building on last year’s Continue reading
The five container-focused partners include Aqua Security, Capsule8, Stackrox, Sysdig Secure, and Twistlock.
The data center giant also added private, direct connections to Microsoft Azure cloud services in Miami and Paris.
VMware's networking and cloud ambitions come into sharper focus with the introduction of NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud.
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The partnership between a cloud provider and an SD-WAN vendor allows Citrix’s technology to run on a RapidScale’s global backbone.