GA Week

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Welcome to Birthday Week 2022

2022 marks Cloudflare’s 12th birthday, and each day this week we will announce new products and host fascinating discussions with guests including product experts, customers, and industry peers.

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Welcome to Birthday Week
Cloudflare’s 2022 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched on September 27, 2010. This week we'll celebrate our 12th birthday. As has become our tradition, we'll be announcing a series of products that we think of as our gifts back to the Internet

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Forrester WAF
Cloudflare named a Leader in WAF by Forrester

Forrester has recognised Cloudflare as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Web Application Firewalls, Q3 2022 report. The report evaluated 12 Web Application Firewall (WAF) providers on 24 criteria across current offering, strategy and market presence.

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Press Release- Independent Research Firm Names Cloudflare a Web Application Firewalls Leader

Cloudflare receives highest score among evaluated WAF providers in the strategy category

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Workers Fund
The world’s leading venture capital firms commit $1.25 BILLION to back startups built on Cloudflare Workers

Building and scaling a startup is hard work. Apply to the $1BN the Workers Launchpad funding program for an opportunity to pitch leading VCs and other perks.

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Press Release- Cloudflare Announces $1.25 Billion “Workers Launchpad” Funding Program to Help Startups Grow Their Businesses

Partnership with 26 venture capital firms will provide support to startups building on Cloudflare Workers

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Open Source Workers Runtime
Introducing workerd: The Open Source Workers Runtime

workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Cloudflare Calls
Build real-time video and audio apps on the world’s most interconnected network

We are announcing Cloudflare Calls, a new product that lets developers build real-time audio and video apps.

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Queues Private Beta
Cloudflare Queues: globally distributed queues without the egress fees

Cloudflare Queues is a message queuing service that allows applications to reliably send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers.

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D1 New Features, new bets
D1: Our Quest to Simplify Databases

Learn about the D1 experience today, what the team is currently working on and what’s coming up!

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Go Live in Real Time
WebRTC live streaming to unlimited viewers, with sub-second latency

Cloudflare Stream now supports live streaming over WebRTC to unlimited concurrent viewers, using open standards WHIP and WHEP, with zero dependencies or client SDKs necessary.

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Startup Program
Build your next startup on Cloudflare with our comprehensive Startup Plan, v2.0

The Startup Plan now has an expanded product basket and broader eligibility criteria, which means more startups now qualify for the program.

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Cache Rules
Introducing Cache Rules: precision caching at your fingertips

We have spent the last ten years learning how customers use Page Rules to customize their cached content, and it’s clear the time is ripe for evolving rules-based caching on Cloudflare.

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Introducing Configuration Rules

Configuration Rules is the new and improved way for Cloudflare customers to control and manipulate features that are enabled or disabled for specific requests on their zone.

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Origin Rules
Where to? Introducing Origin Rules

Origin Rules is a dedicated product for ‘where does this traffic go where it leaves Cloudflare.’ Customers are able to match on an HTTP request using filters and override the host, port, SNI, and the origin a request resolves to.

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Next Gen Page Rules
The future of Page Rules

Learn about four new products that will eventually replace Page Rules by putting more power into the hands of users.

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Dynamic Redirect Rules
Dynamic URL Redirects: 301 to the future

With Dynamic redirects, users can redirect visitors to another webpage or website based upon hundreds of options such as the visitor's country of origin or language, without having to write a single line of code.

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CloudflareTV- Workers Launchpad + Startup Program

Tuesday September 27 8:00 AM PT

Mia Wang, Dawn Parzych, Jade Wang & Matthew Shimizu

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CloudflareTV- Cloudflare Calls + Go Live in Real Time

Tuesday September 27 9:00 AM PT

Zaid Farooqui , Apoorva Ravikrishnan & Brendan Irvine-Broque

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CloudflareTV- Queues Private Beta + D1 New Features, new bets

Tuesday September 27 10:30 AM PT

Ashcon Partovi, Nevi Shah & Leroy Lasenburg

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CloudflareTV- The Future of Page Rules: putting more power in the hands of users

Tuesday September 27 11:30 AM PT

Matthew Bullock, Sam Marsh, Alex Krivit, Michael Tremante & Babur Khan

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History of Birthday Week

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2021

Email Security
Web3
Registrar for Everyone
R2 Announced
Dark Mode
Cloudflare TV as a service

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2020

Cloudflare turns 10!
Cron Triggers
Durable Objects
Web Analytics
Cloudflare Radar
API Shield
Automatic Platform Optimizations

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2019

WARP Plus
Browser Insights
Bot Defend Mode
Workers Sites
HTTP3

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2018

Registrar
Bandwidth Alliance
QUIC support
Workers KV
ESNI

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2017

Unmetered DDoS mitigation
Cloudflare Stream
Geo Key Manager
Workers

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2016

Rebranding effort and CloudFlare becomes Cloudflare, along with a new logo and website. Also introduced early access to managed dedicated SSL certificates, global load balancing and rate limiting.

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2015

Expansion to China and announcement of our partnership with Baidu to bring 17 new data centers online in mainland China.

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2014

Launch of Universal SSL for all Cloudflare customers ensuring that every website supported on our network is secure.

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2011

Cloudflare launches a free automatic IPv6 Gateway for all users to ease their transition to IPv6.

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2010

Cloudflare officially launched in 2010 at TechCrunch Disrupt with 1,000 websites subscribed during the initial beta.