Open sourcing Pingora: our Rust framework for building programmable network services
2024-02-28
Pingora, our framework for building programmable and memory-safe network services, is now open source. Get started using Pingora today...
How Pingora keeps count
2023-05-12
In this blog post, we explain and open source the counting algorithm that powers Pingora. This will be the first of a series of blog posts that share both the Pingora libraries and the ideas behind ...
Cloudflare's handling of a bug in interpreting IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
2023-02-02
Recently, a vulnerability was reported to our bug bounty about a bug in the way some of our code interprets IPv4 addresses mapped into IPv6 addresses. ...
How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
2022-09-14
Today we are excited to talk about Pingora, a new HTTP proxy we’ve built in-house using Rust that serves over 1 trillion requests a day...
Introducing Smart Edge Revalidation
2021-07-28
When both Last-Modified and Etag headers are absent from the origin response, Smart Edge Revalidation will use the time the object was cached on Cloudflare as the Last-Modified header value. When ...
Road to gRPC
2020-10-26
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC during our 2020 Birthday Week. In this post, we’ll do a deep-dive into the technical details of how we implemented support....
Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
2020-03-24
Recently, we developed a technology that reduces our hit tail latency and reduces the wear out of SSDs. This technology is a memory-SSD hybrid storage system that puts unpopular assets in memory....