Fun

March 28, 2019

When I knew Cloudflare was the right place for me

Lets be honest, interviewing for a new job can be a long, difficult process. Not only is it emotionally draining to handle multiple rejections, slow responses, and prolonged processes, it can be physically exhausting to sit through hours of stale interviews.

February 14, 2019

Solving Problems with Serverless The Cloudflare LED Data Center Board, Part I

You know you have a cool job when your first project lets you bring your hobby into the office.

December 25, 2018

Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019

We've put together some Christmas Cryptography questions. Do you think you can solve them?

September 9, 2018

Bob Ross, Lorem Ipsum, Heroku and Cloudflare Workers

It may not be immediately obvious how these things are related, but bear with me... It was 4pm Friday and one of the engineers on the Cloudflare Tools team came to me with an emergency. "Steve! The Bob Ross Ipsum generator is down!".

August 19, 2018

African traffic growth and predictions for the future

Looking back at our historical data, we realized how much the Internet and Cloudflare grew. With more than 150 data centers, 10 percent of web-based applications, customers everywhere around the world, from the tiny islands in the Pacific to the big metropolises.

May 22, 2018

Introducing: The Cloudflare All-Stars Fantasy League

Baseball season is well underway, and to celebrate, we're excited to introduce the Cloudflare All-Stars Fantasy League.

December 25, 2017

The History of Stock Quotes

In honor of all the fervor around Bitcoin, we thought it would be fun to revisit the role finance has had in the history of technology even before the Internet came around. This was adapted from a post which originally appeared on the Eager blog.

August 14, 2015

Dear Internet, Send Us Your Videos

CloudFlare turns 5 years old this September. It's been an amazing ride since our launch. Before we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010, we'd signed up about 1,000 beta customers. It took us nine months to get those first customers.

October 4, 2013

How I created the viral sensation: isthegovernmentopen.com

A few years ago, amidst the final crunch of a project deadline, a friend and former colleague looked me directly in the eye and said, "It's like I don't even know how to build a website anymore."

May 23, 2012

Moog Music: Staying online when Google doodles you

Today Google celebrated the birthday of Bob Moog, the creator of the Moog keyboard, with an interactive doodle. If you haven't played with it, it's pretty cool. Check out, for example, this version of the Legend of Zelda theme music composed with today's doodle.

October 26, 2011

Tales From The Pumpkin Patch

Last week CloudFlare received a call from the team at The Pumpkin Lady. They are currently preparing for their busiest week of the year and were looking to CloudFlare to help with their increase in traffic.As you may tell, pumpkinlady.com is a website dedicated to pumpkin carving.

June 24, 2011

Browser Blaster Makes Your Site More Fun

CloudFlare Apps already cover a wide range of services: live chat, web analytics, affiliate links, and too many to list. These tools make your website better, and we support that wholeheartedly. (More coming next week!)

May 2, 2011

What's On CloudFlare's Mind

The news of Osama bin Laden's death last night caused us to investigate what searches people were running that led them to a CloudFlare-powered site.

April 1, 2011

April's Fools Day

It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco and the office was full of April Fool's jokes. The creativity was spearheaded by Matthieu, who recruited Matthew and Jason to help him execute several ideas. The pranks included wrapping Lee's desk in parcel paper, packaging Ian's desk in bubble wrap, controlling Sri's computer remotely with a foot and making my desk look like it just stepped into a flurry of sticky notes. It was a fun way to start everyone's day. Thanks Matthieu! And then, after al

February 3, 2011

CloudFlare Keeps Groundhog Day Online!

Today is Groundhog Day: the day on which a groundhog (named Phil) crawls out of his hole in Punxsutawney, PA and either sees his shadow, meaning we're in for six more weeks of winter, or does not, in