LUA

December 12, 2018

More consistent LuaJIT performance

A year ago I wrote about a project that Cloudflare were funding at King's College London to help improve LuaJIT. Our twelve months is now up. How did we do?

December 22, 2017

Technical reading from the Cloudflare blog for the holidays

During 2017 Cloudflare published 172 blog posts (including this one). If you need a distraction from the holiday festivities at this time of year here are some highlights from the year.

November 10, 2017

Cloudflare Wants to Buy Your Meetup Group Pizza

If youre a web dev / devops / etc. meetup group that also works toward building a faster, safer Internet, I want to support your awesome group by buying you pizza.

November 8, 2017

ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison

One of the nicer perks I have here at Cloudflare is access to the latest hardware, long before it even reaches the market. Until recently I mostly played with Intel hardware.

October 19, 2017

Helping to make LuaJIT faster

Programming language Virtual Machines (VMs) are familiar beasts: we use them to run apps on our phone, code inside our browsers, and programs on our servers.

February 21, 2017

LuaJIT Hacking: Getting next() out of the NYI list

At Cloudflare were heavy users of LuaJIT and in the past have sponsored many improvements to its performance.

May 9, 2016

First Bay Area OpenResty Meetup

On March 9, , known to most of us as agentzh, organized the first Bay Area OpenResty Meetup at CloudFlare's San Francisco office.

April 9, 2015

Scaling out PostgreSQL for CloudFlare Analytics using CitusDB

When I joined CloudFlare about 18 months ago, we had just started to build out our new Data Platform. At that point, the log processing and analytics pipeline built in the early days of the company had reached its limits.

February 28, 2014

Introducing lua-capnproto: better serialization in Lua

When we need to transfer data from one program to another program, either within a machine or from one data center to another some form of serialization is needed.

December 22, 2013

Keeping our open source promise

Back in October I wrote a blog post about CloudFlare and open source software titled CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street which detailed the many ways in which we use and support open source software.

October 7, 2013

CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street

CloudFlare uses a great deal of open source and free software. Our core server platform is nginx (which is released using a two-clause BSD license) and our primary database of choice is postgresql (which is released using their own BSD-like license).

December 8, 2012

Pushing Nginx to its limit with Lua

At CloudFlare, Nginx is at the core of what we do. It is part of the underlying foundation of our reverse proxy service. In addition to the built-in Nginx functionalities, we use an array of custom C modules...