Select all the buses. Click on bikes. Does this photo have traffic lights? As ridiculous as these questions are, you’re almost guaranteed to have seen one recently. They are a way for online services to separate humans from bots, and they’re called CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHAs strengthen the security of online services. But while they do that,…
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Starting today, we’re thrilled to announce you can run the same tunnel from multiple instances of cloudflared simultaneously. This enables graceful restarts, elastic auto-scaling, easier Kubernetes integration, and more reliable tunnels.What is Cloudflare Tunnel?I work on Cloudflare Tunnel, a product our customers use to connect their services and private networks to Cloudflare without poking holes…
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The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects websites and applications from malicious traffic attempting to exploit vulnerabilities in server software. It’s a critical piece of the broader security posture of your application. With that in mind, we made sure improvements to the Web Application Firewall dashboard experience made it easier to enable the WAF and…
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Some time ago I was looking at a hot section in our code and I saw this: if (debug) { log(“…”); } This got me thinking. This code is in a performance critical loop and it looks like a waste – we never run with the “debug” flag enabled[1]. Is it ok to have if…
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Letzte Woche fand die Cloudflare Developer Week statt – ein willkommener Anlass für unsere Teams, eine Reihe von spannenden neuen Produkten und nicht zuletzt auch einige Verbesserungen für Workers vorzustellen. Die Qualitäten dieser Lösung für den Einsatz von Applikationen wissen übrigens nicht nur unsere Kunden zu schätzen: Das Tool erfreut sich auch bei unseren eigenen…
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A few weeks ago I received a Raspberry Pi 400 as a gift. I didn’t have time to do anything beyond plug it in and verify that it works. It’s great that the Pi 400 comes with everything you need except for a screen: there’s the computer itself, mouse, HDMI cable and power adapter.The Pi…
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Here we go again.On March 15, Cloudflare was sued by a patent troll called Sable Networks — a company that doesn’t appear to have operated a real business in nearly ten years — relying on patents that don’t come close to the nature of our business or the services we provide. This is the second…
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This post is also available in French and German. Cloudflare is one of the first organisations in our industry to have achieved ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification, and the first web performance & security company to be certified to the new ISO privacy standard as both a data processor and controller.Providing transparency into our privacy practices has…
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