Cloudflare with Edward Wang & Kevin Guthrie

About this episode

This episode features a discussion with Cloudflare's Edward Wang and Kevin Guthrie about their Rust-based proxy, Pingora, and the challenges of scaling infrastructure.

How do you build a system that handles 90 million requests per second? That's the scale that Cloudflare operates at, processing roughly 25% of all internet traffic through their global network of 330+ edge locations. In this episode, we talk to Kevin Guthrie and Edward Wang from Cloudflare about Pingora, their open-source Rust-based proxy that replaced nginx across their entire infrastructure. We'll find out why they chose Rust for mission-critical systems handling such massive scale, the technical challenges of replacing battle-tested infrastructure, and the lessons learned from "oxidizing" one of the internet's largest networks.

People in this episode

Host: Matthias Endler

Guests: Edward Wang, Kevin Guthrie

Topics covered

• Cloudflare
• Rust programming
• open-source software
• high traffic systems
• infrastructure replacement
• technical challenges

Keywords

• Cloudflare
• Pingora
• Rust
• nginx
• infrastructure
• requests per second
• open-source

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare

Products: Pingora, nginx

Places: internet, global network

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