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I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment. It's one thing to read "LuaJIT is one of the fastest dyna
by i336_ 11y ago
I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment.
It's one thing to read "LuaJIT is one of the fastest dynamic languages" etc blah blah on http://luajit.org/luajit.html http://luajit.org/luajit.html ...
...it's quite another to learn that EVERY SINGLE CLOUDFLARE REQUEST - all 4 million/sec of them - goes through a LuaJIT-based attack detection system.
Oh.
Video: http://youtu.be/LA-gNoxSLCE http://youtu.be/LA-gNoxSLCE (from http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-10-trillion-problems-but-logging-aint-one http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-...)
Found in the linked thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800149