Zack Bloom

At 12:30 am on April 4th, 1841 President William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia just a month after taking office. The Richmond Enquirer published the news of his death two days later on April 6th. The North-Carolina standard newspaper published it on April 14th. His death wasn’t known of in Los Angeles until July 23rd, 110 days after it had occurred.. An isochron map shows the travel time to various destinations from a specific starting point.

Loading... As the scale of Cloudflare’s edge network has grown, we sometimes reach the limits of parts of our architecture. About two years ago we realized that our existing solution for spreading load within our data centers could no longer meet our needs. We embarked on a project to deploy a Layer 4 Load Balancer, internally called Unimog, to improve the reliability and operational efficiency of our edge network. Unimog has now been deployed in production for over a year.

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email). Attendees included the guy who would create Sun Microsystems, the guy who made Zork, the NTP guy, and the guy who convinced the government to pay for Unix. The problem was simple: there were 455 hosts on the ARPANET and the situation was getting out of control.