How Cloudflare uses Cloudflare Spectrum: A look into an intern’s project at Cloudflare
Aug 21, 2020Ryan Jacobs
Summary
This post details an intern's project to improve the usability of Cloudflare Spectrum for internal customers. The project involved integrating with the Addressing API to allow internal services to use Cloudflare-managed IP addresses as Spectrum origins, bypassing a previous restriction. This was achieved by checking IP ownership, delegation, and ensuring the IP was not already in use as a Spectrum edge IP. The post also discusses the performance implications of this change and how OpenTracing was used to analyze and mitigate them.
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