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How we scaled nginx and saved the world 54 years every day

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Company
Date Published
Author
Ka-Hing Cheung
Word Count
1,658
Company Posts That Month
20
Language
English
Hacker News Points
17
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No
Summary

Cloudflare has made significant improvements to its network's performance by optimizing NGINX, a popular web server software. The company estimates that these changes save the internet approximately 54 years of wait time per day. By modifying NGINX to handle slow disk I/O operations in separate threads and using non-blocking open() calls, Cloudflare has achieved peak p99 TTFB improvements by a factor of six. These optimizations have resulted in faster load times for the 10 million websites, apps, and APIs that use Cloudflare's services.

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