Cloudflare Acquires Eager to Reimagine Apps

In December 2016, Matthew Prince discussed how Cloudflare has grown from handling 3.5 billion pageviews a month in 2011 to over 1.3 trillion per month today. The company launched the Cloudflare Apps platform six years ago and has powered more than a million app installations onto customers' websites. However, with just 21 apps available, they knew there was room for improvement. In June 2016, Cloudflare met Eager, an app store focused on enabling non-technical website owners to install powerful tools through a slick interface. Impressed by their platform and the team's experience in building similar tools, Cloudflare decided not only to partner with them but also to acquire Eager. Eager co-founders Zack Bloom and Adam Schwartz joined Cloudflare along with their entire team, forming the core of the new Cloudflare App development team. They are currently integrating Eager's app store into Cloudflare, replacing the current marketplace with a next-generation app platform. A developer preview of the new app store will begin for app creators in January 2017, and the app platform itself will be released to customers in April 2017. Eager's current platform will sunset starting today, but apps previously installed on customer sites will continue to function indefinitely.