cloudflare/pingora

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Pingora is a Rust framework from Cloudflare for building fast, reliable, and programmable network services such as HTTP proxies and load balancers. It is battle-tested at Cloudflare, serving tens of millions of requests per second, with support for HTTP 1/2, gRPC, WebSocket proxying, TLS, and graceful reloads.

Use cases

• build a custom reverse proxy in Rust
• build a programmable load balancer with failover
• replace nginx with a memory-safe proxy
• proxy gRPC and websocket traffic
• build a high-performance HTTP server at internet scale
• implement custom load balancing strategies

When to choose

• you need a highly customizable, memory-safe alternative to C/C++ proxies like nginx
• performance and security are top priorities for your network service
• you need HTTP/1, HTTP/2, gRPC, or websocket proxying with graceful reloads

When to avoid

• you need a turnkey proxy with config-file setup rather than writing Rust code
• your primary platform is Windows, which only has preliminary support
• you need stable caching APIs, which are still experimental and volatile

Facets

framework · maturity stable

http-server proxy load-testing caching websocket middleware routing networking backend web-development performance developer-tools rust cross-platform async-rust reverse-proxy load-balancer tls grpc-proxy graceful-reload cloudflare linux macos

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