Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:04:27 GMT

Cloudflare identified several limitations in NGINX architecture and decided to write their own reverse proxy. 0:00 Intro 1:53 What NGINX is used for 3:37 NGINX Architecture 7:52 NGINX Limitations 17:12 Cloudflare Pingora Buy me a coffee if you liked this https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr Fundamentals of Networking for Effective Backends udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://network.husseinnasser.com Fundamentals of Database Engineering udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://database.husseinnasser.com Introduction to NGINX (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://nginx.husseinnasser.com Python on the Backend (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://python.husseinnasser.com Become a Member on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg/join Resources Resources: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-built-pingora-the-proxy-that-connects-cloudflare-to-the-internet/ https://www.nginx.com/blog/socket-sharding-nginx-release-1-9-1/amp/