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Cloudflare Beta (2009)

In March 2009, a group of the original team behind Project Honey Pot began working on a new idea. Dubbed Cloudflare , the skunkworks project's goal was to take Project Honey Pot to a new level. For the first five years of its life, Project Honey Pot has tracked online malicious behavior. The most common request by…

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Effective Go

Go is an open-source programming language that focuses on simplicity, reliability, and efficiency, specifically designed to make it easy to build software at scale. Although it borrows ideas from existing languages, it has unusual properties that make effective Go programs different in character from programs written…