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elithrar commented on Forget IPs: using cryptography to verify bot and agent traffic   blog.cloudflare.com/web-b... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
nubinetwork · 7 months ago
Using IPs requires next to no cpu power... if I have to start picking apart http requests and running algorithms on the traffic, I might as not well even run websites, including personal ones.
elithrar · 7 months ago
IPs as identifiers aren’t great: in a world of both CGNAT (more shared IPs) and a ton of sketchy residential proxies, they’ve become poor proxies for identity of a “thing”.
elithrar commented on Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?   lloydatkinson.net/posts/2... · Posted by u/thunderbong
elithrar · a year ago
There's ~four of us trying to reproduce this right now, using Astro and Remix, and cannot at all.

An important note: React-based frameworks tend to use camelCase attributes vs. hyphen-case (which is the output) in components: including the icon library being used here. Something during the build process is not converting them to hyphen-case.

* I've pasted a decently complex SVG exported from Figma into a Remix component verbatim (hyphen-attributes) and it renders fine: https://9b14a265.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev/ (scroll down)

* I've rewritten those attributes to camelCase: and again, renders fine - https://1af766a8.test-broken-svgs-remix.pages.dev/

* This is all deployed via the Pages Build system; no local builds at all.

* Someone else on the team has an Astro example stood up with the specific unplugin-icons library: https://astro-svg.pages.dev/ - cannot reproduce the invalid SVG attributes.

We're going to continue investigating but don't see this as widespread and don't yet have any other reports. That there is a _difference_ between the direct deploy vs. using Pages Builds is a problem, though. We've also asked the Astro folks to understand if there's something up here as well.

(If not clear: I work at Cloudflare)

elithrar commented on Ask HN: Anybody have trouble with Cloudflare R2?    · Posted by u/localfirst
EAtmULFO · 2 years ago
I can confirm the support experience, although we're not currently using R2. We are an Enterprise customer and have been trying since May 8th to get a downed Worker fixed (ticket filed as, "urgent"). Still no progress/response from level 2 support.
elithrar · 2 years ago
Can you share the ticket ID here and/or email me the details? silverlock@cloudflare
elithrar commented on Ask HN: Anybody have trouble with Cloudflare R2?    · Posted by u/localfirst
elithrar · 2 years ago
This should not be the normal experience. Want to drop me an email - silverlock@cloudflare - and I will have the team look into it ASAP.

(I lead our storage & DB product teams here at CF)

elithrar commented on Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?   kerkour.com/distributed-s... · Posted by u/mooreds
_heimdall · 2 years ago
We did actually run into D1 issues during the outage, though I don't remember exact details on what was down. Our issues may have been API related with reads still functional.

My concerns, and this is very much my own concerns with no context of what has or is happening internally st Cloudflare, is that the outage exposed some serious issues that will take time to fix safely. The fact that D1 still doesn't support replication is an indication to me that it has been deprioritized, likely with other newer and less used products, while the infrastructure updates are dealt with.

elithrar · 2 years ago
> The fact that D1 still doesn't support replication is an indication to me that it has been deprioritized, likely with other newer and less used products, while the infrastructure updates are dealt with.

D1 is definitely not deprioritized. We're heads down on replication, and it's important for us to get it right. Takes time!

elithrar commented on Distributed SQLite: Paradigm shift or hype?   kerkour.com/distributed-s... · Posted by u/mooreds
elithrar · 2 years ago
> What a nightmare! Now your application code spills into your database and our initial goal of simplifying application development is nothing but a long-forgotten dream. All of that for what? To save a few milliseconds to display a web page.

I think "a few milliseconds" vastly understates this: if you want to run your application closer to users, even just across the US, each query is (at least) 70ms just to get over the network and back again.

"Application code spills into your database" was a bad thing when you wrote one language (say, Java, or PHP) and another language (PSQL/TSQL/etc) for your "stored procedures", but that's not what most modern databases are advocating for.

Instead, and not unlike something like React Server Components (RSC), you can choose whether to run code close to the user or closer to the DB (for transactions) in the same language as your application, because it's still part of your application code. This is the model that Durable Objects[1], our coordinated storage service, uses.

Disclaimer: I work on D1 & Durable Objects at Cloudflare, so I'm likely to be called biased here, but it's not like we haven't a) thought about this deeply and b) actually use D1 and Durable Objects to build distributed systems at Cloudflare.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/durable-objects-easy-fast-correc...

elithrar commented on Is Cloudflare Dashboard Down?   dash.cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/avhst
elithrar · 2 years ago
(I work at CF)

The dashboard team had a bug that caused too-large cookies to be returned to some users.

They’ve rolled out a fix but you can also clear cookies to remedy.

elithrar commented on Is Cloudflare Dashboard Down?   dash.cloudflare.com/... · Posted by u/avhst
avhst · 2 years ago
Though it says: "Traffic might be re-routed from this location, hence there is a possibility of a slight increase in latency". So it shouldn't be down. Anyone with the same problem?
elithrar · 2 years ago
Unrelated - that’s a planned infra maintenance event.
elithrar commented on Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?    · Posted by u/cristaloleg
elithrar · 2 years ago
This should be resolved. We’re still investigating the underlying root cause, and intend to share a write-up once we have that in hand.

This is not the way we wanted anyone to start their week.

(I am the PM lead for Cloudflare Workers: Databases & Storage)

elithrar · 2 years ago
elithrar commented on Ask HN: Cloudflare Workers are down?    · Posted by u/cristaloleg
codegeek · 2 years ago
Is there a postmortem coming ? Would you be able to tell us what happened at a high level ?
elithrar · 2 years ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075877

(We’ll share more when we can)

u/elithrar

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I enjoy building things that speak internet protocols, from HTTP to H.264, so that people can communicate from anywhere in the world.

Product lead in the networking space. Background in telecoms/radio/SCADA/control systems.

Contact me: matt /at/ eatsleeprepeat.net • https://github.com/elithrar • https://www.twitter.com/elithrar

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