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Continue to be amazed by Cloudflare DNS worldwide performance:

For some perspective, as of 02/08/23:

Authoritative DNS (DNSPerf):
Cloudflare: 9.05 ms AWS Route 53: 30.34 ms Azure: 38.41 ms Google Cloud: 44.76 ms

Public DNS Resolvers (DNSPerf):
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1: 9.91 ms Cisco Umbrella: 18.84 ms Google: 21.62 ms Continue reading →

If you read my prior blog posts, Managing Multiple Python Versions and Packages and Managing Multiple Python Installs and Packages with Pyenv and Pipenv, you’re aware of how I prior used Pyenv and Pipenv to install, manage, and use multiple python runtimes and associated python packages. More recently I tried asdf and was blown away by the simplicity and ability to use it for managing multiple runtimes for different languages (not just Python) with one CLI tool. asdf is a tool version manager and employs a plugin architecture, so, for instance, you can install Python plugin and the Node.js plugin if you require multiple runtimes for both. You can read more on the asdf site here. In this post, I show you how you can quickly get going using asdf; my instructions below are specific to MacOS. Continue reading →

I wrote a blog last year titled “Managing Multiple Python Versions and Packages.” In that blog post, I discussed how you can easily deploy and manage multiple python versions and packages without running into issues later on. Here I go into a bit more detail on setup and usage. Continue reading →

Checkout my latest video on some of the new Cloudflare security and WAF capabilities below or directly on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.

Cloudflare Security Analytics, WAF Attack Score, and Uploaded Content Scanning further enhance Cloudflare security and WAF capabilities. Security Analytics brings together all Cloudflare security detection capabilities in one place to show a detailed understanding of a site’s traffic and threats. WAF Attack Score via machine learning scores every request with a probability of it being malicious. Uploaded Content Scanning scans content being uploaded to your application for malicious content.

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Checkout the below video on Cloudflare API Gateway where I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.

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Checkout my latest video on Cloudflare API Gateway below or directly on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here. A growing proportion of Internet traffic is API traffic. Securing, managing, and monitoring API Endpoints has become critical; Cloudflare API Gateway can help.

Cloudflare API Gateway provides many capabilities for API visibility, security, abuse protection, and management. In this video, we discuss Cloudflare API Gateway benefits, traffic flow, end user workflow, and walkthrough a demo highlighting API Gateway capabilities/features. Also, see my prior post on Cloudflare API Gateway: Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics

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Checkout the below video on Cloudflare Bot Management and ridding the Internet from CAPTCHAs where I also show a demo and walk through features/capabilities. Watch directly below or on the Cloudflare YouTube channel here.

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A growing proportion of web traffic is API traffic with many sources now showing API traffic being more than 50% of total web traffic. Cloudflare has prior reported that 54% of the traffic on the global Cloudflare network is API traffic. Cloudflare API Shield provides many capabilities for API visibility, security, abuse protection, and management. Cloudflare API Shield already had many capabilities including API discovery, API analytics, positive security model with mTLS and schema validation, intelligent custom rate limiting, volumetric abuse protection, and sensitive data protection. Now Cloudflare has recently added the capability to add and manage API endpoints and gain visibility to API performance and errors while also providing anomaly detection alerts. Continue reading →

Cloudflare Bot Management – Stopping Credential Stuffing Attack

Cloudflare Bot Management can better detect and help mitigate malicious bots using multiple detection mechanisms like heuristics, behavioral analysis/anomaly detection, machine learning, and finger printing against a massive global volume of data. My colleague and I recently discussed and showed examples of some of these capabilities in a recent Cloudflare webinar. Continue reading →

Continue to be Amazed by Cloudflare DNS Worldwide Performance

asdf for Managing Multiple Tool Runtime Versions

Managing Multiple Python Installs and Packages with Pyenv and Pipenv

Cloudflare Security Analytics, WAF Attack Score, and Uploaded Content Scanning Demo [Video]

The growing threat to APIs -and how Cloudflare API Gateway can help [Video]

Cloudflare API Gateway Demo and Walkthrough [Video]

Webinar: The growing threat to APIs—and how Cloudflare API Gateway can help

The newest approach: Stopping bots without CAPTCHAs [Video]

Cloudflare API Shield Adds API Endpoint Management and Metrics

Stop Credential Stuffing Attacks with Cloudflare Bot Management

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