November 2013 Summaries

Cloudflare has developed an open-source service called Red October, which implements a "two-man rule" to protect sensitive data. The two-man rule is a security protocol that requires at least two individuals to perform critical or secure actions. In the context of Red October, this means that no one individual can decrypt sensitive data alone; instead, they must delegate their credentials to the server for a period of time. This service uses cryptographic techniques such as AES encryption and RSA key pairs to ensure the security of the data. The project is currently in beta and is licensed under the 3-clause BSD license. Cloudflare plans to continue releasing improvements to the open-source community and encourages others to contribute their own enhancements.

CloudFlare is seeking talented engineers to join their team. The company offers an intellectually stimulating environment with smart colleagues working on cutting-edge technologies such as Go, Lua, C, PHP, and JavaScript. They contribute extensively to open source projects and have a diverse range of employees from various backgrounds. Their customers include major websites like imgur, Eurovision, and MIT, as well as smaller sites, collectively generating billions of page views per month. As an engineer at CloudFlare, your work will have a significant impact on the web's performance, security, and ease of use for millions of users worldwide.

In November 2013, John Graham-Cumming discussed how CloudFlare has been using the Go programming language for various services. These include handling compression for high-latency HTTP connections, their entire DNS infrastructure, SSL, load testing and more. The company started with one project in Go but now has many major projects in it. Some of these projects are RRDNS, Railgun, Red October, and SSL Bundler. They also experimented with CoreOS and Docker, and have open-sourced several Go libraries. CloudFlare continues to use Go extensively and is hiring Go programmers in London and San Francisco.