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		pornel on May 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare took down our website In response to this incident Cloudflare has made big engineering changes, including huge work to move away from C as much as possible. The offending parsers were rewritten in Rust (https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html), as well as WAF, image optimization, and a few others. Nginx is being replaced with a custom cache server. New implementations are using either the Workers platform, or are written in Rust or Golang.

seanw444 on May 27, 2024 [–]

Memory safety doesn't fix fundamental design flaws.

pornel on May 27, 2024 | [–]

This is an empty tautology. You have no insight into the actual design, so I presume your fundamental design flaw is the CDN existing.

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