Matthew Prince
@eastdakota.com
A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer, and former ski instructor. Co-founder & CEO of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET).
Just published an initial post mortem on the incident that impacted many @Cloudflare customers use of our dashboard and APIs. Lots of lessons. #CodeOrange blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-...
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details
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Every year @zatlyn and I write a Founders’ Letter reflecting on the opportunities ahead for @Cloudflare. This year we ended it with a poem, though we didn’t technically write it ourselves. blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-...
Cloudflare’s 2023 Annual Founders’ Letter
Cloudflare is officially a teenager. We launched on September 27, 2010. Today we celebrate our thirteenth birthday
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Kinda feel like we should announce some more stuff and help people avoid the latest #AmazonTax tomorrow. Sound good? @Cloudflare #BirthdayWeek
Here we go! @Cloudflare #BirthdayWeek. Officially a teenager. #Lucky13 blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-b...
Welcome to Birthday Week 2023
Building the future is, in part, what Birthday Week is about. Over the past 13 years we’ve announced things like Universal SSL (doubling the size of the encrypted web overnight), or Cloudflare Worke...
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Counting down the hours until the beginning of @Cloudflare’s #BirthdayWeek. It’s our 13th. And I do love the number 13. So challenged the team to make it extra-special…
It’s September which means @Cloudflare’s #BirthdayWeek is less than a month away. Spending this afternoon reviewing the announcements and… 🤯. Any guesses of what we have in store?
Good decision by Austrian authorities. Gov’ts have the right to limit some content on the networks within their borders, but IP address blocking violates basic principles of network neutrality. https://torrentfreak.com/ip-address-blocking-banned-after-anti-piracy-court-order-hit-cloudflare-230811/
Shhh… 🤫 @Cloudflare Registrar just quietly rolled out support for the following TLDs: .app .boo .channel .dad .day .dev .esq .foo .how .mov .new .nexus .page .phd .prof .rsvp .soy
The plot of the next Fast & Furious movie: religious fundamentalist group genetically engineers pathogen that infects marijuana plants to make them impotent and Dom and crew must race to stop them. https://www.wsj.com/articles/cannabis-industry-confronts-billion-dollar-threat-weak-weed-b22a95ad
Cannabis Industry Confronts Billion-Dollar Threat: Weak Weed
Pathogen spreading among crops is cutting recreational drug’s potency, forcing growers to cull ‘dudded’ plants
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Feeling screwed by AWS springing an additional $43/year for every IPv4 address you use? There’s an easy solution: @Cloudflare’s IPv4-to-IPv6 Gateway. Free and trusted by a huge percentage of the web since 2011: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflares-automatic-ipv6-gatewa/
Introducing CloudFlare's Automatic IPv6 Gateway
CloudFlare launched publicly exactly one year ago today. In that year, we have grown from virtually no traffic to powering more than 15 billion page views for 350 million unique visitors in the last m...
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So cool: @Cloudflare Radar now tracks routing statistics like percentage of routes with RPKI validation, route leaks, and BGP hijacking. Check it out: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing
Just a moment...
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Love hard science and it’s ability to change the world in the instant of an experiment. Know lots left to prove, but incredible if proven. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news
Just a moment...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. No, wait. Wait... wait... really... wait.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3y agoTwitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads
For what it’s worth, I’m rooting for this platform to win in the #Tweetwars.
Just updated my handle here to @eastdakota.com. That was easy!
I increasingly get asked what motivates me. The answer is easy: fighting for the future of the Internet. So proud of the @Cloudflare team’s work on efforts like #ProjectGalileo https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-project-galileo-ukraine/
Hacks Against Ukraine's Emergency Response Rise During Bombings
Data from Cloudflare's free digital defense service, Project Galileo, illuminates new links between online and offline attacks.
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