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2023-11-17
The initial posts are dedicated to the x86 architecture. Since then, the fleet of our working machines has expanded to include a large and growing number of ARM CPUs. This time we’ll repeat this exercise for the aarch64 architecture....
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2022-06-29
Learn how to patch Linux security vulnerabilities without rebooting the hardware and how to tighten the security of your Linux operating system with eBPF Linux Security Module...
2021-09-10
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. In this part we will handle external library dependencies....
2021-05-06
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that......
2021-04-02
Continue learning how to import and execute code from an object file. This time we will investigate ELF relocations....
March 02, 2021 12:00 PM
Ever wondered if it is possible to execute an object file without linking? Or use any object file as a library? Follow along to learn how to decompose an object file and import code from it along the way....
October 27, 2020 12:00 PM
A few months ago, after reading about Cloudflare doubling its intern class, I quickly dusted off my CV and applied for an internship. Long story short: now, a couple of months later, I found myself staring at Linux kernel code and adding a pretty cool feature to gVisor....
September 18, 2020 11:00 AM
SYN-cookies help mitigating SYN-floods for TCP, but how can we protect services from similar attacks that use UDP? We designed an algorithm and a library to fill this gap, and it’s open source!...
March 02, 2020 1:00 PM
Last month finally I had an opportunity to use Bloom filters. I became fascinated with the promise of this data structure, but I quickly realized it had some drawbacks. This blog post is the tale of my brief love affair with Bloom filters....
June 24, 2019 1:00 PM
Cloudflare is organizing a meetup in Seattle on Tuesday, June 25th and we hope you can join. We’ll be bringing together members of the developers community and Cloudflare users for an evening of discussion about serverless compute and the infinite number of use cases for deployin...
June 17, 2019 1:00 PM
Generating random outcomes is an essential part of everyday life; from lottery drawings and constructing competitions, to performing deep cryptographic computations. ...
May 21, 2019 1:30 PM
In this tutorial, we’ll build a todo list application in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a twist: all the data should be stored inside of the newly-launched Workers KV, and the application itself should be served directly from Cloudflare’s edge network, using Cloudflare Workers....
May 21, 2019 1:00 PM
Today, we’re excited to announce Workers KV is entering general availability and is ready for production use!...
May 18, 2019 3:00 PM
Recently at I gave a short talk titled "Linux at Cloudflare". The talk ended up being mostly about BPF. It seems, no matter the question - BPF is the answer. Here is a transcript of a slightly adjusted version of that talk....
May 03, 2019 1:00 PM
It is unlikely we can tell you anything new about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter, eBPF for short, if you've read all the great man pages, docs, guides, and some of our blogs out there. But we can tell you a war story, who doesn't like those? ...
April 24, 2019 6:21 PM
Our servers process a lot of network packets, be it legitimate traffic or large denial of service attacks. To do so efficiently, we’ve embraced eXpress Data Path (XDP), a Linux kernel technology that provides a high performance mechanism for low level packet processing....
April 19, 2019 1:00 PM
You’ve had a chance to build a Cloudflare Worker. You’ve tried KV Storage and have a great use case for your Worker. You’ve even demonstrated the usefulness to your product or organization. ...
March 27, 2019 1:43 PM
Today we are happy to release the source code of a project we’ve been working on for the past few months. It is called BoringTun, and is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard® protocol written in Rust....
March 21, 2019 3:00 PM
We’re super stoked about bringing you Workers.dev, and we’re even more stoked at every opportunity we have to dogfood Workers. Using what we create keeps us tuned in to the developer experience, which takes a good deal of guesswork out of drawing our roadmaps....
March 04, 2019 4:00 PM
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and Java...
