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Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show
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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
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