The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Cloudflare Open sources Pingora (NGINX replacement)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Show Notes

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Cloudflare has announced they are opening sources Pingora as a networking framework! Big news, let us discuss

0:00 Intro

0:30 Reasons why Cloudflare built Pingora?

3:00 It is a framework!

7:30 What in Pingora?

11:50 Security in Pingora

13:45 Multi-threading in Pingora

21:00 Customization vs Configuration

25:00 Summary

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