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Cloudflare is rewriting everything in Rust
Sylvain Kerkour traces Cloudflare's shift from C and Lua NGINX modules to Rust after CloudBleed, covering Pingora, FL2 and the NGINX termination rewrite, a critique of its open-source posture, and how avoiding .unwrap() could have prevented the November 18, 2025 outage.
5 min · 1,102 words
If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you even know what's going on?
Jared Siegel argues that anyone using LLMs at home or at work should route traffic through their own proxy, so they can see prompts, responses, token spend and data paths instead of trusting a provider's black box.
2 min · 496 words
Quick thoughts on GitHub’s Sept 23 incident
Lorin Hochstein reads GitHub's terse write-up of its Sept 23 Azure Central US database incident and pulls out the multiple contributing factors hiding in it: planned maintenance, replica failover, and an under-capacity primary.
3 min · 696 words