Happy Valentine's Day, Internet!
There’s a special place in our heart for all the open source projects that support the Internet and improve the lives of everyone in the developer community, and today seems like an appropriate time to express the gratitude we have for the non-profit / volunteer-run projects that hold everything together.
Cloudflare uses a lot of open source software and also contributes to open source. Informally, Cloudflare has already been upgrading the plans of certain eligible open source projects that have reached out to us or that we have interfaced with. Here are some of the projects whose landing pages are already protected by Cloudflare.
A subset of open source projects on Cloudflare. See more >>
To really pay the goodwill forward, we want to make this opportunity common knowledge in the developer community. In 2018, we intend to provide free Cloudflare Pro Plan upgrades to eligible open source projects (subject to a case-by-case evaluation) that:
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In this History of Networking episode of Network Collective, Joel Halpern joins us to talk about the history of network modeling and policy based management in the standards bodies.
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The company’s edge software aims to secure and manage IoT devices.
In the rush to the cloud, organizations may be tempted to simply move applications from their private data centers to the public cloud. In this video, Keith Townsend, principal at The CTO Advisor and Interop ITX infrastructure chair, discusses issues associated with lift-and-shift cloud migration, including security and cost.
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