How They Scaled

How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

Cloudflare replaced Nginx with Pingora, a Rust proxy that reuses connections better and needs less CPU and memory.

Published: 2022-09-14
Scale: 1 trillion requests/day
Techniques: rewrite connection reuse
Stack: Rust Nginx

See also

Cloudflare architecture Envoy vs Nginx at scale Go vs Rust for backend services at scale

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