#pingora

Cloudflare cut 100TB of RAM by re-deriving the consistent hashing math behind a 2007 default. What the formula, and a Rust alignment gotcha, mean for

Cloudflare ditched NGINX and rewrote it in Rust to create 'Pingora'. This article dissects the source code to explain the 'Two-Stage Connection Pool' mechanism, the full picture of the Server/Service architecture, and the trait methods developers need to implement.