Nginx Replacement

Architecture Digest

Sep 13, 2023 · Backend Development

Cloudflare’s Pingora: A High‑Performance Rust‑Based Reverse Proxy Replacing Nginx

Cloudflare replaced Nginx with Pingora, a Rust‑written reverse‑proxy service that delivers higher speed, better efficiency, and stronger security by redesigning the worker model, using multithreading, and optimizing connection reuse, resulting in significant CPU, memory, and latency savings across billions of requests.