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Cloudflare Workers Introduces connect() API to Create TCP Sockets
During the recent developer week, Cloudflare announced a Worker API to create outbound TCP sockets. The new socket API allows developers to connect back to TCP-based infra directly from a Worker, including databases.
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Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Andrea Medda and Matt Boyle at QCon London
At QCon London, Andrea Medda, senior systems engineer at Cloudflare, and Matt Boyle, engineering manager at Cloudflare, shared the lessons their platform services team learned from enabling the use of Apache Kafka at the scale of 1 trillion messages.
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Cloudflare Detects a Record 71 Million Request-Per-Second DDoS Attack
On the weekend of 11 and 12 February, the Super Bowl weekend, Cloudflare detected dozens of hyper-volumetrics DDoS attacks. These attacks peaked at 50-70 million requests per second (rps), with the highest at 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record. This attack is 54% higher than the previous record registered in June 2022 with 46M rps.
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Cloudflare DDoS Report Finds Increase in Attack Volume and Duration
Cloudflare released its Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2022. The report covers the DDoS attack landscape as detected by the Cloudflare network. HTTP DDoS attacks increased 79% year-over-year with ransom DDoS attacks seeing an increase as well. The report found that longer attacks are increasing especially with network-layer DDoS attacks.
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Cloudflare Servers Share IP Addresses for Egress Traffic
Cloudflare recently detailed how it manages its servers' egress traffic using "soft-unicast ". Soft-unicast allows multiple servers to share a single IPv4 address for their egress traffic while redirecting the response packets to the correct physical server. It provides a scalable, cost-efficient solution for Cloudflare to offer various products that require tagged egress IP addresses.
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Cloudflare Releases Cache Reserve in Open Beta
Recently, Cloudflare announced the open beta of Cache Reserve, which provides a way to serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache persistently. It is a large, persistent data store implemented on top of R2.
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Cloudflare Introduces Super Slurper Feature for Its R2 Object Storage in Private Beta
Cloudflare recently announced the R2 Super Sluper feature, which enables developers to move all their data to R2 in one giant slurp or sip by sip through an intuitive UI and API. The feature is in private beta by signing up.