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SPF, DMARC, and DKIM: How to Keep Your Email Out of the Spam Folder
Insights gleaned from years in the trenches. Truly essential tips, practices, and guides for achieving WordPress success.
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US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network
With the addition of a third network, Project Fi now gives you more coverage and speed, helping you stay connected wherever you are.
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RIAA to .ORG Registry: Take down ThePirateBay
We were forwarded a letter from the RIAA via our lawyers on Friday whom in turn received it from Public Interest Registry (PIR), who is the registry operator of the .ORG top level domain. The letter was sent from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asking PIR "to reconsider whether it…
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Scalable Live Video Streaming Using NGINX and MPEG-DASH/HLS
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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The Tor Project: Building the Next Generation of Onion Services
A few weeks ago, a small group of Tor developers got together in Montreal and worked on onion...
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Google moves to replace Flash with HTML5
By the end of this year Chrome will begin ignoring Flash as Google takes another step towards removing the "final Plugin" by replacing Flash with HTML5.
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How Fastly coded their own routing layer for scaling CDN
This post is the first in a series detailing the evolution of network software at Fastly. We’re unique amongst our peers in that from inception, we’ve always viewed networking as an integral part of our product rather than a cost center. We rarely share what we do with the wider networking community however, in part…
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Everybody gets WebSockets
Two summers ago, with a seemed-big-at-the-time network of 28 datacenters, not long after introducing Medellin, CloudFlare introduced support for WebSockets, initially for our Enterprise customers.
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The curious case of slow downloads
Some time ago we discovered that certain very slow downloads were getting abruptly terminated and began investigating whether that was a client (i.e. web browser) or server (i.e. us) problem.
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Wangle – an asynchronous C++ networking and RPC library
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Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new product will fit in the broad palette of content distribution…
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House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
H.R. 2666 Would Undermine FCC’s Charge to Protect the Open Internet In a disappointing turn of events, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 241 to 173 to pass H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, a bill that would undermine the FCC’s ability to enforce key net...
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Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
Back in November we wrote a blog post about one latency spike. Today I'd like to share a continuation of that story. As it turns out, the misconfigured rmem setting wasn't the only source of added latency. It looked like Mr Wolf hadn't finished his job.
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux
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The Trouble with CloudFlare
Wednesday, CloudFlare blogged that 94% of the requests it sees from Tor are "malicious." We find...
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Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking
Maglev is the software network load balancer that enables Compute Engine load balancing to serve a million requests per second with no pre-warming.
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400Gbps: Winter of Whopping Weekend DDoS Attacks
Over the last month, we’ve been watching some of the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks ever seen unfold. As CloudFlare has grown we've brought on line systems capable of absorbing and accurately measuring attacks.
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A tale of a DNS exploit: CVE-2015-7547
A buffer overflow error in GNU libc DNS stub resolver code was announced last week as CVE-2015-7547. While it doesn't have any nickname yet (last year's Ghost was more catchy), it is potentially disastrous.
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Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has…
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An introduction to IPFS
By Dr. Christian Lundkvist and John Lilic
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Cisco buffer overflow vulnerability with remote code execution
A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) version 1 (v1) and IKE version 2 (v2) code of Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the affected code area. An attacker…
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IRCv3
IRCv3 is a working group of client/server software authors and network operators from the community, set up to advance the IRC protocol.
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