Just published! One of the first items I worked on at Cloudflare was the Cloudflare CDN; reoccurring pattern while working on this – learned a lot researching, playing with the technology, and working with some smart folks at Cloudflare! Download and read the Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture to learn more about the traditional challenges customers face with web applications, how the Cloudflare CDN resolves these challenges, and Cloudflare CDN architecture and design. Continue reading
Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture
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Tagged Anycast, Anycast CDN, Anycast Network, Argo, Argo Smart Routing, Argo Tiered Cache, Argo Tiered Cache Topologies, cache, CDN, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Anycast Network, Cloudflare Argo, Cloudflare Cache, Cloudflare CDN, Cloudflare CDN Reference Architecture, Cloudflare Global Anycast Network, Cloudflare Global Network, Cloudflare Network, Cloudflare Smart Routing, Cloudflare Tiered Cache, Cloudflare Tiered Cache Topologies, Content Delivery Network, Smart Routing, Smart Tiered Cache Topology, Tiered Cache, Tiered Cache Topologies
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Cloudflare Web3 Gateways Webinar
Still time to register and have a chance at winning a $300 VISA e-Gift Card! Join us tomorrow, March 9th to learn how Cloudflare can help in your Web3 journey.
Learn about Cloudflare’s vision and products around Web3. By the end of the webinar, you’ll understand the motivation behind Web3, some of the underlying technologies and how they’re being used, and how Cloudflare Web3 Gateways work and their respective benefits. Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Blockchain, Cloudflare, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Webinars, Cryptocurrency, DApps, Ethereum, IPFS, Networking, Tech Events, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Web Development, Web3
Tagged blockchain, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway, Cloudflare IPFS Gateway, Cloudflare Web3, Cloudflare Web3 Gateways, Cloudflare Web3 Webinar, Cloudflare Webinar, Dapp, Dapps, Decentralization, Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum Gateway, humair, Humair Ahmed, InterPlanetary File System, IPFS, IPFS Gateway, Trustlessness, Web3, Web3 Gateways, Webinar
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Cloudflare IPFS Gateway Whitepaper
Since joining Cloudflare, I’ve had the opportunity to research and work on Web3 including IPFS and Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway. I’ve also had the opportunity to write this detailed whitepaper on Cloudflare IPFS Gateway. Thankful for an amazing Web3 engineering team and brand/design team! You can now download and read the Cloudflare IPFS Gateway Whitepaper to learn more. Feel free to provide any feedback or reach out if you have questions. Continue reading
Speaking at Upcoming Webinar – Introduction to Cloudflare Web3 Gateways
I’ll be speaking at an upcoming Cloudflare Webinar – Introduction to Cloudflare Web3 Gateways! Only 14 days left. Click here to register and have a chance to win a A $300 VISA e-Gift Card! Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Webinars, DApps, Networking, Tech Events, Technology, Web Development, Web3
Tagged ahmed, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Ethereum Gateway, Cloudflare IPFS Gateway, Cloudflare Web3, Cloudflare Web3 Gateways, Cloudflare Web3 Webinar, Cloudflare Webinar, Ethereum, Ethereum Gateway, humair, Humair Ahmed, IPFS, IPFS Gateway, Web 3.0, Web3, Web3 Gateways, Webinar
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The Evolution of Blockchain from Crypto to DApps
I remember buying my first bitcoin back when it was still hovering around ~$100. It’s an understatement to say things have sure changed – and, not just in terms of what Bitcoin is now worth (market cap just under $1 trillion), but also with the ecosystem, exchanges, trading/investment vehicles, and flood of other blockchains and respective cryptocurrencies that followed. From the paper that started it all came an avalanche of ideas and innovation embracing fundamental paradigm shifts in how transactions, currency, digital assets, and even applications can be viewed and utilized in a different way. 
Although I wish I could go back in time and follow-through with plans to sell all my assets and go all-in with Bitcoin, I am still excited for the future and what’s to come from what started with the first implementation of blockchain with Bitcoin to what has now morphed into something larger. In this short post, I talk about the initial use of blockchain with Bitcoin and how it has evolved beyond its initial use for digital money or cryptocurrencies into a platform for decentralized apps (DApps). Continue reading
Posted in Applications, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, DApps, Ether, Ethereum, Technology
Tagged Bitcoin, blockchain, DAO, Dapp, Dapps, Decentralized Apps, Decentralized Autonomous Organization, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Defi, Distributed Apps, distributed web, dweb, Ethereum, NFT, Web3
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Web3, DApps, and Cloudflare IPFS and Ethereum Gateways
One of the interesting areas I’ve been reading-up and working on past few months has been Web3. Web3 can be viewed as a new iteration of the Web incorporating technologies that exhibit characteristics of decentralization, trustlessness, immutability, inherent verification, while also providing transparency. Additionally, Web3 moves away from the aspect of a single entity controlling user data such as we’ve see in the current Web 2.0 model. That’s a mouthful, and I’ll briefly explain some more below and also follow-up with an additional blog post going into more details when time is more on my side :-). Continue reading
Start of a new role at Cloudflare!
It’s been several weeks or roughly around 2 months now that I’ve been at Cloudflare in the role of Technical Marketing Director.
Very grateful and fortunate to have worked with incredibly talented people at so many innovative companies during my career. The ingenuity and creativity of people never ceases to amaze me and has been very inspirational. Continue reading
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Tagged Cloudflare, Humair Ahmed, Technical Marketing Director
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Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Hibernate Hosts to Lower Cloud Spend
I’ve written a few prior posts on Nutanix Clusters on AWS: Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud Platform, Nutanix Clusters on AWS – Getting Started and on Nutanix Beam: Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Beam – Chargeback and Tracking Spend Across Clouds. In this post, I marry the two and use Nutanix Beam to demonstrate how the Hibernate/Resume functionality in Nutanix Clusters can be used by customers to lower their cloud spend when using Nutanix Clusters in AWS. Note, Hibernate/Resume functionality is still in Early Access as per shown in screen shots further below. Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Business, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged AHV, AHV hypervisor, Amazon Web Services, AOS, Audit Trail, AWS, AWS EC2 bare metal hosts, AWS Tags, Azure, Beam, cloud, cloud bursting, cloud migration, cloud strategy, Cluster Hibernate, Cluster UUID, Clusters, Clusters portal, Cost Allocation Tags, DA, Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Recovery, DR, EC2, EC2 bare metal hosts, Flow, HCI, Hibernate, hybrid cloud, hybrid cloud strategy, hypervisor, Microsoft Azure, Move, Multicloud, multicloud cloud strategy, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Nutanix AOS, Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Cloud, Nutanix Cluster Hibernate, Nutanix Cluster on AWS Hibernate, Nutanix Clusters, Nutanix Clusters Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS, Nutanix Clusters on AWS Free Trial, Nutanix Clusters on AWS portal, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix HCI, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Move, Nutanix multicloud, Nutanix Prism, Prism, Resume, Tags, UUID, VDI
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Nutanix Beam – Chargeback and Tracking Spend Across Clouds
My prior post on Nutanix Beam, Optimize Cost Across Public and Private Clouds with Nutanix Beam, provided a brief intro and described some of the basic functionality of Beam and how it can be used to define a cost control strategy for both multicloud and hybrid cloud scenarios. In this post, I build on top of the prior post and show an example of how customers can leverage capabilities in Beam to track cloud spend across teams, business units, and even across multiple clouds. Continue reading
Posted in AWS, AWS, AWS, Business, Hyper-converged infrastructure, Microsoft, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Nutanix, Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Tagged AWS, Azure, Beam, business unit, chargeback, cloud, Cloud Cost Control, cloud cost governance, Cloud Cost Management, cloud cost optimization, Cloud Management, cloud optimization, cost, cost analytics, cost center, Cost Governance, cost optimization, hybrid cloud, hybrid-cloud visibility, Multi-cloud, Multicloud, Multicloud Cost Governance, multicloud visibility, Nutanix, Nutanix Beam, Nutanix Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix Xi Beam, on-prem, onprem, private cloud, public cloud, SaaS, Software as a service, visibility, Xi, Xi Beam
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