What does Cloudflare do?

The TL;DR

Cloudflare provides networking tools that help companies distribute their apps globally in a secure way.

• To make sure your apps and sites are fast no matter where your users are, developers put copies of their site in data centers across the globe, called a CDN

• Cloudflare provides a giant, super fast CDN with built in security features to prevent attacks on your site

• Over time, they’ve added adjacent products like serverless workers, load balancing, video streaming, and serverless storage

Cloudflare IPO’d back in 2019, and (at the time of writing) has a market cap of $30B - so they’re doing something right. Let’s figure out what it is!