CloudFlare is an engineering-driven company. This is a story we’re proud of because it embodies the essence of who we are: when faced with a problem, we found a novel solution. Technical details to follow but, until then, welcome to the no hardware world. (Update: The post with the technical details is now online.) Fall in San Francisco The story begins on a Saturday morning, in the Fall of 2012, almost exactly two years ago. I got a call on my cell phone that woke me. It was a man who introduced himself as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at one of the world’s largest banks. “I got your number from a reporter,” he said. “We have an incident. Could you and some of…

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