Hasty Treat - Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott asks Wes about Cloudflare — which services he uses, which ones he doesn’t, why, and more!
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Show Notes
2:45 - What do you personally use Cloudflare for?
- DNS provider
- Domain registration at cost
- Caching
- DDoS protection
- Hiding server IP address
- Free HTTPS
- Firewall rules
- Scrape shield
- Lightweight stats
- Serverless functions
- DNS
- Cloudflare Warp
16:40 - What are you not using?
- KV storage
- Video streaming
- Deep customization around blocking/errors
19:49 - How do you set it up?
Links
- Cloudflare
- Beginner Javascript
- Digital Ocean
- DNS Simple
- Let’s Encrypt
- Syntax Ep 224: Serverless / Cloud Functions - Part 1
- Begin
- 7-Eleven hit “Dance The Slurp”
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- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloco, Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax in this Monday, |
| 0:30.0 | hasty, treat. |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to be talking all about Cloudflare. |
| 0:34.3 | Specifically, I'm going to be asking West to describe some things in Cloudflare. |
| 0:38.7 | Not because I don't know, I know everything, right? Of course, not. Of course, it's not something I don't know but I'm just |
| 0:44.1 | interested in learning some new things from the audience perspective so I'm |
| 0:48.2 | going to be asking Wes a whole bunch of things about Cloudflare and we're going to |
| 0:51.5 | be talking about it I should state first and |
| 0:53.9 | foremost that we are not sponsored by Cloudflare they have not paid us for this |
| 0:57.4 | episode. This is just a pure curiosity and interest so my name is Scott |
| 1:01.8 | Tlensky I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado. |
| 1:03.6 | And with me as always is Wes Boss. Hey everybody. Hey you, Wes. This episode is sponsored by Log Rocket. Now Log is a are happening in your site. Something happened? Well, it's going to be |
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| 1:27.8 | it, and you get this really cool thing. This is one of the services in my mind. |
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