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Cloudflare Releases Free Web Analytics for All — Quite a bold move from Cloudflare here especially as you don’t even need to be using Cloudflare to use it - it’s an HTML snippet for any site. Plausible and Fathom are other players in the privacy friendly Web analytics space.

Getting to the Core: Benchmarking Cloudflare’s Latest Server Hardware — A refresh of the hardware that Cloudflare uses to run analytics provided big efficiency improvements with lots of numbers shared here.

Unwrap the SERVFAIL: Experiments with Extended DNS Errors — A look behind the scenes at some work Cloudflare has done to improve the error messages its DNS resolver outputs.

Bot Attack Trends for 2020 So Far — Cloudflare occasionally does roundups of what they’re seeing ‘automated traffic’ (which makes up almost 40% of traffic) do online. Google has also seen an increase in DDoS attack volumes.

Introducing Cloudflare Radar: A Look at the Internet's 'Patterns' — Cloudflare seem to be announcing all sorts of new things lately, but this one will be of interest to anyone keen to monitor the ‘state of the Internet’ in terms of traffic, DoS attacks, traffic levels, browser use, and similar types of data (from Cloudflare’s perspective, of course). Direct link.

How cdnjs Migrated to Serverless with Cloudflare and Workers KV — cdnjs is a free CDN service that hosts almost 4000 JavaScript libraries. Cloudflare provides the CDN services, but now it’s been remodelled to using their serverless Workers platform and Workers KV key-value data store – here’s the full story.

Eliminating Cold Starts with Cloudflare Workers — No one likes cold starts – that delay when a function isn’t loaded, in memory, and ready to run. But Cloudflare thinks they have an optimization to eradicate them.. load the worker first thing during TLS negotiation. This only works because Workers’ load time is low in the first place, though.

Cloudflare Unveils 'Workers Unbound' — Somehow it’s been three years since Cloudflare released Workers, their JavaScript-powered take on an edge-based serverless platform. Unbound takes Workers a step further with support for longer execution times. In related news, they’ve also announced broader language support for Workers, by supporting Python, Scala, Kotlin, Reason and Dart out of the box.

Serverless Rendering with Cloudflare Workers — How to do server-side rendering ‘at the edge’ using Workers Sites, Wrangler, HTMLRewriter, and tools from the broader Workers platform.

Cloudflare's Approach to Making the WAF 40% Faster — Web Application Firewalls are a key part of protecting modern webapps against security threats nowadays and Cloudflare runs one at mega scale. This post covers a few of the things they’ve done to improve performance.

UtahFS: An Encrypted File Storage System — An open source, encrypted storage system built on FUSE and cloud storage. It’s open source and built at Cloudflare although they don’t use it themselves (yet).

How (and Why) Cloudflare Uses HashiCorp Nomad — Nomad is a workload orchestrator designed for scale and Cloudflare uses it for dynamic task scheduling across its over 200 edge locations.

Cloudflare Speed Test: Measure The Speed and Consistency of Your Connection — Netflix has Fast.com and there’s good old Speedtest but now Cloudflare has their own take on the Internet connectivity speed test. It takes an interesting approach by focusing on 90th percentile speed and shows jitter too.

Network-Layer DDoS Attack Trends for Q1 2020 — Cloudflare takes a look at how DDoS attacks have changed in a time when the way many of us use the Internet has changed significantly.

Cloudflare Workers Now Supports.. COBOL — COBOL is one of the earliest things you could really call a programming language (it first appeared in 1959!) and is often a source of amusement because it’s seen as old, verbose, clunky, and difficult to maintain. Nonetheless, it’s still in use (particularly in legacy systems) and you can use with Cloudflare Workers too!

Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance — HTTP/3 is still in a draft status spec-wise, but it’s already being supported here and there, including on Cloudflare. This post covers where HTTP/3 is right now, why it matters, and some basic benchmarks.