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Unimog - Cloudflare’s edge load balancer has blown me away, let us discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Unimog is a layer 4 load balancer built for Cloudflare scale. Cloudflare has written a great blog about it so let us discuss this technology. Video: https://youtu.be/Q0irm6xzNNk Resources https://blog.cloudflare.com/unimog-cloudflares-edge-load-balancer/ 0:00 Intro 3:33 Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Load Balancers 7:00 Anycast 13:45 Packet Forwarding 23:30 XDP and Network stack 26:45 Maintaining established connection 31:00 Edge Computing 32:00 UDP Routing 33:00 Unimog Summary 34:00 Open Source Software 36:00 K8 Rant 40:00 Conclusion Cards 6:30 L4 vs L7 proxying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKMLgFVxZYk 12:30 vip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85XY7H2JPbs 13:30 tcp handshake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_BILl7n0Y&t=5s

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