New Stream Player customizations to boost your video experience
When we launched Stream, one of our goals was to provide the most performant video player. We focused on building a player that loads fast, works across different browsers and frameworks, and intelligently switches video quality levels depending on your end user’s connectivity.
We are expanding the Stream Player vision, so you can control the look and feel of the viewing experience. Today, we are announcing a series of new customization options to help you deliver the best video playback experience.
Add Your Own Color
One thing we kept hearing from customers is that they would like to be able to customize the Stream Player to better reflect their brand. Stream Player now supports setting a primary color to match your company’s color. Here is an example of us using the primaryColor property to set the primary color to the Cloudflare Orange.
To use the primaryColor property, simply add it to the iframe URL. In this example, the hex code is #F48120 and the uri-encoded value is %23F48120.
https://iframe.videodelivery.net/fcfa5c97795ba90251cbbae1880a0e18?primaryColor=%23F48120
If you are using the React or Angular wrapper, you can use the primaryColor prop to customize the player color.
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Launching a Startup on Cloudflare Workers
Closing out the Developer Spotlight series for this week is Tejas Mehta who shares how he built his startup, cClip.
cClip is a great tool that allows you to “copy/paste” and transfer files between any of your devices, regardless of what OS they run.
What is so interesting about cClip though is that it is a fully serverless application built on top of Workers and KV, but not exclusively. It uses Firebase for authentication, RevenueCat for a consolidated view over the Apple and Google Play store, and Stripe for all other billing related work.
This is a peek into the future of application development. This is a future where we will be “importing” other SaaS applications as easily as we currently import a package from a package manager. And not only unidirectional by calling APIs on that external application, but bi-directional communication through events with Webhooks.
Here is Tejas telling his story.
The origins of cClip
The abrupt transition to virtual schooling last year led to all my school communications and assignments transitioning online. With a MacBook laptop and an Android phone, submitting my precalculus homework meant I had to take a picture of each page, email each picture to Continue reading
An Open-Source CMS on the Cloudflare Stack: Introductory Post
The Cloudflare documentation is a great resource when learning concepts, reviewing API usage notes, or when you’re in need of a concise snippet to illustrate those APIs or concepts. But, as comprehensive as it is, new users to the Cloudflare Workers platform must bridge a large gap to go from the introductory example snippets to a real, production-ready application. While some of this may be specific to Workers (as with any platform), developers everywhere are figuring out how applications should be built in a serverless world. Building large serverless applications entails a learning curve journey, regardless of a developer’s experience level.
At Cloudflare, we’re intimately aware of this because we also had to go through the same transition. Our engineers are world-class and expertfully design and craft products that compliment the distributed paradigm… but experts aren’t born overnight! We have been there, and we want to help jumpstart and aid others’ understanding.
With this in mind, we decided to do something unique to the industry: we are developing an example feature-complete SaaS application that will be built entirely on the Cloudflare stack. It is and will continue to be completely free, open-sourced on GitHub, and developed in public. This Continue reading
Build your next video application on Cloudflare
Historically, building video applications has been very difficult. There's a lot of complicated tech behind recording, encoding, and playing videos. Luckily, Cloudflare Stream abstracts all the difficult parts away, so you can build custom video and streaming applications easily. Let's look at how we can combine Cloudflare Stream, Access, Pages, and Workers to create a high-performance video application with very little code.
Today, we’re going to build a video application inspired by Cloudflare TV. We’ll have user authentication and the ability for administrators to upload recorded videos or livestream new content. Think about being able to build your own YouTube or Twitch using Cloudflare services!
Fetching a list of videos
On the main page of our application, we want to display a list of all videos. The videos are uploaded and stored with Cloudflare Stream, but more on that later! This code could be changed to display only the "trending" videos or a selection of videos chosen for each user. For now, we'll use the search API and pass in an empty string to return all.
import { getSignedStreamId } from "../../src/cfStream"
export async function onRequestGet(context) {
const {
request,
env,
params,
} = context
const { id Continue readingOne of these JPEGs is not like the other
One of these JPEGs is not like the other
“JPEG” or the image encoding specification by the “Joint Photographic Experts Group” (JPEG) is a truly universal format at this stage. You really cannot go very far on the internet without seeing a JPEG file
Video: Early Data-Link-Layer Addressing
After a brief coverage of the theoretical aspects of network addressing, it’s time to pay a brief visit to the early data-link-layer addressing solutions, from one address per datagram/frame (SDLC, HDLC) and ignore this address (PPP) to no address on P2P links (SLIP).
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DNS at IETF112
Here are notes from some selected working group meetings that caught my attention at the recent IETF 112 meeting. And, yes, I should say at the outset that the DNS continues to catch a lot of my attention these days, so I’ll divide this report into DNS and the other topics. This is the DNS part.BGP Performance testing with filtering
1st Post Comparing Open Source BGP Stacks 2nd Post Follow-up Measuring BGP Stacks Performance 3rd Post Comparing Open Source BGP stacks with internet routes 4th Post Bird on Bird, Episode 4 of BGP Perf testing 5th Post BGP Performance 5 – 1000 full internet neighbors The number one request I...Migrating from fabricpath to EVPN/VxLAN
Introduction
Do you have a 3 tier, switched, or vendor proprietary data center design?
Does it rely on spanning tree or proprietary solutions to eliminate spanning tree?
Not sure how to migrate to a new architecture without serious downtime?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then this post is for you. We’ll be looking at deploying an EVPN/VxLAN Data Center fabric and migrating a from a cisco fabricpath environment to the new design.
Although we will be focusing on a fabricpath migration many, if not all, of the principles apply to migrating a 3 tier architecture.
1. Building the new Data Center Fabric
2. Connecting the current fabricpath and new fabric
3. Migrating switched virtual interfaces
4. Migrating various types of physical devices
Building the new Data Center Fabric
The easiest part of designing and building the new fabric is the physical topology. This should be a symmetric topology to easily take advantage of equal cost multipath and add additional switches with ease. This is also known as a spine/leaf or clos topology. The basic idea is leafs connect to spines and spines connect to super spines. A leaf/spine should not connect to another switch of the Continue reading
Real-time threat response for Kubernetes workloads, using threat intelligence feeds and deep packet inspection
Cloud-native transformations come with many security and troubleshooting challenges. Real-time intrusion detection and the prevention of continuously evolving threats is challenging for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes. Due to the ephemeral nature of pods, it is difficult to determine source or destination endpoints and limit their blast radius.
Traditional perimeter-based firewalls are not ideal fit for Kubernetes and containers. Firewalls have traditionally been used to block attacks at the perimeter, but if the perimeter is breached, there’s no protection from within the cluster. The dynamic nature of Kubernetes requires a specialized approach to intrusion detection and prevention for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud.
Threat intelligence feeds, which record and track the IP addresses of known bad actors, are a critical part of modern cloud-native security. Calico Cloud now provides threat intelligence feeds, such as AlienVault, as part of its default security policies. This means that traffic to suspicious IPs is blocked from day one without the need for any extra configuration. Additionally, an anomaly detection dashboard in Calico’s UI shows full context, including which pod(s) was involved so you can analyze and remediate.
Another advanced method for intrusion detection and prevention introduced in Calico Cloud is deep packet inspection (DPI). DPI inspects, Continue reading
Hedge 109: Edward Lewis and the DNS Core
What is the “core” of the DNS system, and how has it changed across the years? Edward Lewis joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss his research into what the “core” of the domain name system is and how it has changed—including the rise of the large cloud players to the core of the default free zone.
What Is Near-Zero Downtime Migration for SAP Systems
With the right approach, it is possible to drastically minimize scheduled downtime and its impact to the business when conducting an SAP migration.IPv6 Buzz 089: An IPv6 Deployathon With AFRINIC
In this IPv6 Buzz episode, Tom and Ed chat with Mukom Tamon, AFRINIC's head of capacity building, about IPv6 Deployathon events and how Mukom and AFRINIC are helping move IPv6 deployment forward in Africa and beyond.
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IPv6 Buzz 089: An IPv6 Deployathon With AFRINIC
In this IPv6 Buzz episode, Tom and Ed chat with Mukom Tamon, AFRINIC's head of capacity building, about IPv6 Deployathon events and how Mukom and AFRINIC are helping move IPv6 deployment forward in Africa and beyond.What’s New in Calico v3.21
It’s that time again; we’re really happy to announce Calico v3.21! As always, thank you to everyone who contributed to this release! For detailed release notes, please go here. Alongside the usual-but-essential bug fixes and other improvements, there are some big new improvements to be aware of:
BGP Improvements
Calico supports BGP, which is used within the cluster in some scenarios, and to allow you to integrate cluster routing with your upstream network devices. Now though, you can even view the status of your BGP sessions, including RIB / FIB contents, and agent health via the new CalicoNodeStatus API. See the API documentation for more details.
In addition, you get more granular control; you can control BGP advertisement of certain prefixes using the new disableBGPExport option on each IP pool.
Service-based network policy improvements
If you aren’t already familiar with them, the egress policy rules that can match on Kubernetes services, introduced in v3.20, are pretty transformative. However we have improved even further upon them in two ways:
- Now, you can use service matches in Calico NetworkPolicy and GlobalNetworkPolicy ingress rules.
- And, you can even now use service-based network policy rules on Windows nodes!
Option to run Calico Continue reading
HS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ?
SaaS is popular as a 'not my problem' solution and easy-on-pocket entrè. So lets examine adversarial question "What does the customer lose?". Johna and Greg discuss many issues on both in the search for critical analysis on SaaS and the longer term impacts.
HS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ?
SaaS is popular as a 'not my problem' solution and easy-on-pocket entrè. So lets examine adversarial question "What does the customer lose?". Johna and Greg discuss many issues on both in the search for critical analysis on SaaS and the longer term impacts.
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Workers, Now Even More Unbound: 15 Minutes, 100 Scripts, and No Egress
Our mission is to enable developers to build their applications, end to end, on our platform, and ruthlessly eliminate limitations that may get in the way. Today, we're excited to announce you can build large, data-intensive applications on our network, all without breaking the bank; starting today, we're dropping egress fees to zero.
More Affordable: No Egress Fees
Building more on any platform historically comes with a caveat — high data transfer cost. These costs often come in the form of egress fees. Especially in the case of data intensive workloads, egress data transfer costs can come at a high premium, depending on the provider.
What exactly are data egress fees? They are the costs of retrieving data from a cloud provider. Cloud infrastructure providers generally pay for bandwidth based on capacity, but often bill customers based on the amount of data transferred. Curious to learn more about what this means for end users? We recently wrote an analysis of AWS’ Egregious Egress — a good read if you would like to learn more about the ‘Hotel California’ model AWS has spun up. Effectively, data egress fees lock you into their platform, making you choose your provider based not on Continue reading