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Networking and performance stories today!
- A repeatable and probe-free methodology for measuring CDN performance (@Cloudflare wins, btw)
- A debugging story about global TLS termination
- How we identify multi-user IPs to improve our security services
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- A repeatable and probe-free methodology for measuring CDN performance (@Cloudflare wins, btw)
- A debugging story about global TLS termination
- How we identify multi-user IPs to improve our security services
#CloudflareResearch🔬
We know @Cloudflare is fast (the fastest in most places) and have the scans to prove it. However, most techniques that use active scanning to measure performance aren't verifiable, so as great as our scans are, they aren't enough to convince skeptics.
Enter research.
Enter research.
It turns out that performance can be predicted given a comprehensive map of the Internet's topology. By combining public data sources on Internet eXchange Points (IXPs), off-net caches, BGP, and geodata with smart path prediction algorithms, you can make an educated guess.
Even more from #CloudflareResearch🔬 today. This time we have a deep dive into our paper at ACM SIGCOMM about disentangling the mess of conventions around IP addresses, hostnames, and sockets. Plus, two posts about the future of our "favorite" authentication mechanism: passwords.
Historically, most Internet systems assigned IP addresses to hosts based on which server a service is running on. Cloudflare was designed to be more flexible. In theory, there is no reason IP addresses have to correspond to individual machines or even to hostnames.
To take theory to practice, we ran an experiment to see the impact of taking advantage of the freedom and flexibility brought by this combination of technologies: anycast, SNI, and bpf_sk_lookup. The results were promising.
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The Internet is not simply a loose federation of companies and billions of dollars of deployed hardware; it’s a network of relationships governed by technical standards that form the connective tissue that allows us to build important aspects of modern society on the Internet.
Today on the @Cloudflare blog, we are sharing several articles that highlight how research and standards development intersect to help the Internet evolve into a more secure, more private, more reliable, and trustworthy technology.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (@ietf) is an open, international community that, with the Internet Architecture Board (@intarchboard) and the Internet Research Task Force (@inretafo), publishes technical documents (the RFC series) to influence the evolution of the Internet.
