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Mattias shares his insights into what we saw during the outage and our lessons learned.

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Learn how to deploy your Inertia Vue SSR worker to the Cloudflare Workers platform without breaking a sweat.

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By implementing rate limiting at the edge, “dead requests” can be reduced.

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Discover how we're using Cloudflare Workers to perform API authentication on the edge to make our infrastructure more cost-effective.

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Max Kostinevich explains how to create your own Geolocation service using Cloudflare workers.

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Some interesting stats shared by Cloudflare.

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For years I've used Google's public DNS service. It's famous IP address is 8.8.8.8. It's a resolves addresses faster that my internet provider.

Yesterday Cloudflare launched their DNS service which promises to be faster and better for your privacy. It has an awesome IP address: 1.1.1.1. Here are some benchmarks.

Unfortunately, by default, DNS is usually slow and insecure. Your ISP, and anyone else listening in on the Internet, can see every site you visit and every app you use — even if their content is encrypted. Creepily, some DNS providers sell data about your Internet activity or use it target you with ads. We think that’s gross. If you do too, now there’s an alternative: 1.1.1.1

The announcement: https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

More info + how to set it up on your device: https://1.1.1.1/

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If you need a free SSL certificate Let's Encrypt seems like the obvious way to go. But the installation and renewal process of Let's Encrypt surely has it's caveats. An alternative to Let's Encrypt is to use a free certificate issued by Cloudflare. On his blog Taylor Otwell published a post explaining how to request and install such a certificate.

I personally prefer to use Cloudflare, another service that offers free SSL certificates, as well as a variety of other free and paid services that are useful for web developers. I prefer Cloudflare because: - Cloudflare doesn’t require any renewal process to ever run on my server. LetsEncrypt renewals must run on my server at least every 3 months and that’s just one more thing that sometimes can (and does) go wrong. - Cloudflare supports wildcard sub-domains.

https://medium.com/@taylorotwell/free-wildcard-ssl-using-forge-cloudflare-ab0ebfbf129f

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Cloudflare pushes forward! Read the entire article for a good explanation on http2 and server push.

Today, we’re happy to announce HTTP/2 Server Push support for all of our customers. Server Push enables websites and APIs to speculatively deliver content to the web browser before the browser sends a request for it. This behavior is opportunistic, since in some cases, the content might already be in the client’s cache or not required at all.

In semi-related news: Laravel Forge recently made a nice change as well. If you install an ssl certificate on a Froge provisioned server, http2 will be enabled by default.

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