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Discussion on: I'm Junade Ali, author of multiple software books and working on a PhD in theoretical computer science. Ask me anything!

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Liana Felt (she/her)

Hey Junade! What's the coolest thing Cloudflare is working on?

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Junade Ali • Edited

So much cool stuff going on around the company. Cloudflare Resolver (1.1.1.1) has been cool recently, doing Edge Computing with Cloudflare Workers, the network team always are building and noticing cool things, the Data team are doing some cool stuff with ClickHouse, there's cool work going on to get Cloudflare to investigate running the Cloudflare edge software on ARM processors.

For me and my team:

  • The work I did with Troy Hunt and PwnedPasswords was really fun and generated a ton of coverage (in particular the k-Anonymity model for validating if a password is pwned).
  • Search Based Software Engineering is a big focus for us (getting software to write itself, by considering software problems as optimisation problems), and hopefully you'll hear more exciting stuff about this work on our blog. Not a lot of work has been done with SBSE in distributed systems, and this is fun to see.
  • Exposing some of our automated debugging tools and using them for intelligent alerting to the public is a cool project and you may start to notice this as a Cloudflare user (including some tailored email alerts, dashboard notifications and upfront debugging information in the Ticket Submission Form before you submit a support ticket). This allows us to be more proactive in supporting our customers.