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Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
- jnord 11mo ago(2023)
- pclmulqdq 11mo agoInteresting. No mention of kernel bypass, which Cloudflare was also discussing in 2023-2024.
- wmf 11mo agoOutside of HPC/HFT most people will never need kernel bypass. If you just got off Nginx you probably have years of optimizations left to do. (Username checks out though.)
- majke 11mo agoThere should be a political party for people who use opcode mnemonics as their nicknames or domain names.
- squirrellous 11mo agoAnd another party for people who sign their emails with 3-letter usernames? :)
- wmf 11mo agoI'm ready to form a coalition.
- nwellinghoff 11mo agoSo why is this surfacing again now and why not a up to date article on Oxy? Which sounds very useful btw.
- wmf 11mo agoThere are always people who haven't heard about stuff. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- nchmy 11mo agoSurely you're not saying that everyone should just start posting all of cloudflare's blog posts? Let alone all blog posts on the net. So, what's the threshold for what should be shared, given that most people don't know most thing things...?
- patapong 11mo agoIsn't this the point of upvoting though - if people find it interesting and new, they will upvote and stuff will be visible. I also think HN does some sort of deduplication if something has been posted recently (to count as upvote instead of new submission), but not sure of the details.
- glenstein 11mo agoIt's also the point of commenting. I think they were hoping for a more specific explanation along the lines of "I'm interested in it because it has X, Y, Z implications" or "Oxy continues to be important because ____ and here's the best comprehensive intro to it."
- stingraycharles 11mo agoPeople can submit anything they want. If it’s interesting, it’ll get upvoted. If not, it’ll not reach the front page. Isn’t that the whole benefit of sites like HN and Reddit?
- wmf 11mo agoI think it would be nice to have a Hacker Canon of stuff that's no longer news but still worth reading. Maybe the HN front page could have a few threads looking back 1/5/10/20 years where people could re-discuss things in a historical context.
- mxxx 11mo agounfortunate name
- BoorishBears 11mo agoah, the duality of man.
- mattclarkdotnet 11mo agoOnly in America
- yeahforsureman 11mo agoUnfortunately not (only)
- rob74 11mo agoNot only, but the opioid crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Opioid_Use_Disorder_Death_Rate,_1980-2021,_of_the_20_Countries_with_the_Highest_GDP_per_Capita.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_...) is still something pretty specific to the United States, so you can't automatically assume that developers from other countries (I'm going by the author's name here because I wasn't able to find other information about him) will be familiar with the street names of various opioids...
- leosanchez 11mo agoWhat does it mean ?
- stanac 11mo agoShort for oxycodone, a drug abused by addicts.
- system2 11mo ago
- linsomniac 11mo agoI spent some time on Friday trying out Cloudflare tunnel and boy was it a bad experience. The big killer was that the tunnel endpoint they gave me had an IPv6-only endpoint that I'm not sure was even valid. None of my devices could connect to it, including macbook, phone, linux, AWS instance... On top of that I keep running into unexpected roadblocks with Cloudflare, like when I was trying to set up the tunnel they required me to set up a dedicated domain, you can't set up a subdomain of an existing domain. Probably fine if you are rolling it out as a production service, but for just testing it to make sure it even works (see IPv6 comments above), I just wanted to set it up as a subdomain.
- watermelon0 11mo agoHaven't used Cloudflare in a while, but in the past you needed $200/month Business plan to be able to use subdomains of an existing domain with DNS hosted elsewhere.
- h33t-l4x0r 11mo agoNah, I'm free tier. I register domains through them and I think I pay around $10/month for R2 storage. All kinds of other freebies come on that tier, D1 databases (sqlite), Workers (think Lambda)
- csomar 11mo agoThat really sums up the cloudflare experience and this is from someone heavily invested in their workers platform. They have lots of products and keep pumping more but except for DNS, most of them are half assed with weak maintenance/support.
- CuriouslyC 11mo agoThat's not a fair take. I will give Cloudflare a lot of shit for some of their products, but some of their products are 100% best in class. For instance, R2 is just better than S3, and KV is better than AWS/GCP options. The pricing is better, it's multi-region by default and there's less ops overhead.
- AbuAssar 11mo agoclever name
- leosanchez 11mo agoWhat does it mean ?
- BoorishBears 11mo agoAn informal nickname for the opioid Oxycodone
- theturtle32 11mo agoOr a reference to oxidation, the process by which rust is formed…
- hiccuphippo 11mo agoOr simply oxygen.
- bitpush 11mo agoAnd also prOXY. Works in many levels.
- NaomiLehman 11mo agoor oxytocin
- whereistejas 11mo agoor oxymoron
- NaomiLehman 11mo agothat's funny :)
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- koakuma-chan 11mo agoHow does it compare to Pangora?
- thayne 11mo agoIs it the same thing? Perhaps oxy was later renamed to pingora?
- littlestymaar 11mo agoThe linked blog post has an entire section about that: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/#relation-to https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/#relation-to > Although Pingora, another proxy server developed by us in Rust, shares some similarities with Oxy, it was intentionally designed as a separate proxy server with a different objective.
- lionkor 11mo agoAnother un-google-able (OXY as in Occidental Petroleum Corp?) name for a Rust project. We just cannot help ourselves.
- jalk 11mo agoThe article states that it's a proprietary project
- dpoloncsak 11mo agoYou google "Rust oxy proxy" and the first like 10 hits are Cloudflare's blog about it, a few HN posts..... seems fine to me?
- pyuser583 11mo agoLook at the ADA language: GPS (GNAT Pro Studio) AWS (ADA Web Server) and ADA itself (American with disabilities act).
- blinkingled 11mo agoStopped reading at proprietary. Seriously why would I care tying my app to something proprietary and have no way out of it?
- stingraycharles 11mo agoWhat makes you think you can download it and use it yourself? This is just CloudFlare discussing their internal tech stack.
- blinkingled 11mo agoI meant the I have no interest in knowing anything about any company's internal tech stack and also no interest in tying my application to one company's internal stack. Much of it sounded like lock-in to me.
- tecleandor 11mo agoAlthough Oxy is a closed, internal project, seems like they released part of it under a BSD license. Not the networking part, but a Rust library to create "production-grade systems". https://github.com/cloudflare/foundations https://github.com/cloudflare/foundations
- talkingtab 11mo agoA proprietary project. I was surprised to realize how little interest I have in these things anymore. I mean genuinely surprised. I suppose I have just seen so many large-corporation-does-something in isolation projects that I make two possibly wrong assumptions. 1) It will never work 2) The article is just advertising. Jobs, products whatever. There is a third conclusion which is worrisome. That the leadership of the organization just doesn't get it. I'm not advocating these as correct, just wondering if other readers share my instantaneous reaction of been-there, seen-that, know-how-it-ends.
- zaoui_amine 11mo agoOxy sounds cool, but proprietary stuff is a hard pass for me. Just give me open-source any day.