Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
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Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
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Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#2For any of the Cloudflare team that frequents HN, curious if you have an eventual plan to open-source Pingora? I recognize it may stay proprietary if you consider it to be a differentiator and competitive advantage, but this blog post almost has a tone of "introducing this new technology!" as if it's in the cards for the future.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#3For any of the Cloudflare team that frequents HN, curious if you have an eventual plan to open-source Pingora? I recognize it may stay proprietary if you consider it to be a differentiator and competitive advantage, but this blog post almost has a tone of "introducing this new technology!" as if it's in the cards for the future.
We are planning on open sourcing it. That's mentioned in the post near the end.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#4For any of the Cloudflare team that frequents HN, curious if you have an eventual plan to open-source Pingora? I recognize it may stay proprietary if you consider it to be a differentiator and competitive advantage, but this blog post almost has a tone of "introducing this new technology!" as if it's in the cards for the future.
We are planning on open sourcing it. That's mentioned in the post near the end.
Thanks Matt, not sure how I missed that. Glad to hear it!
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#5I share lots of feelings towards NGINX that Cloudflare mention on this blog post. New features like 103 Early Hints and HTTP/3 exist in HAProxy and Caddy but there is nothing coming in NGINX.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#6> When crashes do occur an engineer needs to spend time to diagnose how it happened and what caused it. Since Pingora's inception we’ve served a few hundred trillion requests and have yet to crash due to our service code.
> In fact, Pingora crashes are so rare we usually find unrelated issues when we do encounter one. Recently we discovered a kernel bug soon after our service started crashing. We've also discovered hardware issues on a few machines, in the past ruling out rare memory bugs caused by our software even after significant debugging was nearly impossible.
That's quite the endorsement of Rust. A lot of people focus on the fact that Rust can't absolutely guarantee freedom from crashes and memory safety issues. Which I think misses the point that this kind of experience of running high traffic Rust services in production for months almost without a single issue is common in practice.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#7Should have waited to post this until it was actually ready to be open sourced. Otherwise this is just kinda like "huh, neat" without anything else to do with it.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#8Wow this is just what I was looking for, a proxy written in a memory safe language like rust with no GC as an alternative to nginx. Looking forward to the open source version!
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#9Sounds good. I never encountered any performance issues with Cloudflare.
If you have the time for enhancement, then:
1. Option to hit the cache before workers. (Why we never use workers).
2. Rules for blocking traffic during nights (time-based rules).
3. Make sure every product is a replacement. If you offer the same thing as a cloud provider. Don’t make us write a lot of custom code.
Re: Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
#10Sounds good. I never encountered any performance issues with Cloudflare. If you have the time for enhancement, then: 1. Option to hit the cache before workers. (Why we never use workers). 2. Rules for blocking traffic during nights (time-based rules). 3. Make sure every product is a replacement. If you offer the same thing as a cloud provider. Don’t make us write a lot of custom code.
Could you expand on 3?