How teams scaled Nginx: 2 real case studies
2 of the 73 engineering write-ups in our database mention Nginx in their stack. They come from 2 companies (Cloudflare and Dropbox) and were published in 2022 (1 undated). 1 of the 2 state concrete scale numbers, for example "1 trillion requests/day" (Cloudflare). Each card below links to our short summary and the original post.
Cloudflare · 2022
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.
Dropbox · n.d.
How we migrated Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy
Dropbox moved its edge traffic proxy from Nginx to Envoy for better observability and extensibility.
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