Technical reading from the Cloudflare blog for the holidays

In 2017, Cloudflare published 172 blog posts covering various topics such as industry collaboration to dismantle a DDoS attack, the use of Lava Lamp randomness in their network, comparison between Intel and ARM-based servers, monkey patching the Linux kernel, introduction of Cloudflare Workers for edge computing, Geo Key Manager for granular control over private key locations, quantum-resistant cryptography implementation, history of CSS languages, SystemTap scripts for performance analysis, rate limiting feature, reflection attacks and their statistics, dangers of Intel's frequency scaling, handling 1 million DNS queries per second, AES-CBC security bug impact analysis, LuaJIT optimization, Privacy Pass project's mathematical background, leap second affecting Cloudflare DNS, and the absence of a leap second in 2018.