Cloudflare is relentless about building and running the world’s fastest network. We have been tracking and reporting on our network performance since 2021: you can see the latest update here. Building the fastest network requires work in many areas. We invest a lot of time in our hardware, to have efficient and fast machines. We […]
Tag Archives: nginx
ROFL with a LOL: rewriting an NGINX module in Rust
At Cloudflare, engineers spend a great deal of time refactoring or rewriting existing functionality. When your company doubles the amount of traffic it handles every year, what was once an elegant solution to a problem can quickly become outdated as the engineering constraints change. Not only that, but when you’re averaging 40 million requests a […]
Demystifying File and Folder Permissions
If you have poked around a server before you have probably encountered file permissions. In fact, all computer file systems offer permissions based on the same core ideas. The file permissions in Linux, Mac, and Windows computers are very similar to the file and folder permissions in Apache, Nginx, and IIS servers. You can right-clickRead […]
Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua
At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules that are specific to our infrastructure including load balancing, monitoring, and caching. Recently, we’ve been adding more […]
