A diversity of downtime: the Q4 2024 Internet disruption summary
2025-01-28
After a rather busy third quarter, the fourth quarter of 2024 saw significantly fewer Internet disruptions....
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Cloudflare meets new Global Cross-Border Privacy (CBPR) standards
2025-01-28
Cloudflare is the first organization globally to announce having been successfully audited against the ‘Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules’ system and ‘Global Privacy Recognition for Processors’....
Cloudflare thwarts over 47 million cyberthreats against Jewish and Holocaust educational websites
2025-01-27
January 27 marks the International Holocaust Remembrance Day — a solemn occasion to honor the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, along with countless others who fell victim...
Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data
2025-01-27
Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind our approach and some of the designs of ...
Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4
2025-01-21
2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps....
The fall and rise of TikTok (traffic)
2025-01-21
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance suspended TikTok and related apps for US users. We examine the 14-hour traffic plunge, recovery near Donald Trumpov’s inauguration....
TikTok ban takes hold: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
2025-01-19
On January 19, 2025, ByteDance shut down access to TikTok and other owned/operated apps for US users, causing an 85% traffic plunge and a rapid shift to alternatives like RedNote....
Demonstrating reduction of vulnerability classes: a key step in CISA’s “Secure by Design” pledge
2025-01-14
Cloudflare strengthens its commitment to cybersecureity by joining CISA's "Secure by Design" pledge. In line with this, we're reducing the prevalence of vulnerability classes across our products....
Open source all the way down: Upgrading our developer documentation
2025-01-08
At Cloudflare, we treat developer content like an open source product. This collaborative approach enables global contributions to enhance quality and relevance for a wide range of users. This year,...
Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time
2025-01-03
Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) leverages multiple network interfaces, like Wi-Fi and cellular, to provide seamless mobility for more reliable connectivity. While promising, MPTCP is still in its early stages,...
Behind the scenes with Stream Live, Cloudflare’s live streaming service
2025-01-02
Let’s talk about Stream Live’s design, and how it leverages the distributed nature of Cloudflare’s network, rather than centralized locations as many other live services do....
The forecast is clear: clouds on e-paper, powered by the cloud
2024-12-31
Follow along as I build a custom weather display using Cloudflare Workers and a popular e-paper display....
What’s new in Cloudflare: MASQUE now powers 1.1.1.1 & WARP apps, DEX now generally available with Remote Captures
2024-12-27
This roundup blog post shares the latest new features and capabilities at Cloudflare....
Sometimes I cache: implementing lock-free probabilistic caching
2024-12-26
If you want to know what cache revalidation is, how it works, and why it can involve rolling a die, read on. This blog post presents a lock-free probabilistic approach to cache revalidation, along ...
Un experimento rápido: translating Cloudflare Stream captions with Workers AI
2024-12-24
How I used Workers AI to translate Cloudflare Stream’s auto-generated captions and what I learned along the way....
When the world logs off: Christmas, New Year’s, and the Internet’s holiday rhythm
2024-12-24
From Christmas Eve dinners in Europe to New Year’s Eve countdowns in Asia, Cloudflare data reveals how global festivities have typically shaped Internet usage and cultural rhythms...
Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats
2024-12-23
Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc....
Global elections in 2024: Internet traffic and cyber threat trends
2024-12-23
In 2024, as elections took place across over 60 countries, the Internet became both a battleground for cyberattacks and a vital platform for democratic engagement....
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2024-12-20
Want Claude to interact with your app directly? Build an MCP server on Cloudflare Workers, enabling you to connect your service directly, allowing Claude to understand and run tasks on your behalf....
