PIPEFAIL: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down
April 05, 2022 1:57PM
Post Mortem
Outage
Deep Dive
Speed & Reliability
This post tells the story of how a missing shell option called “pipefail” slowed Cloudflare down....
Unlocking QUIC’s proxying potential with MASQUE
March 20, 2022 4:58PM
Proxying
Content Security Policy
Deep Dive
Research
QUIC
We continue our technical deep dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP...
A Primer on Proxies
March 19, 2022 5:01PM
Deep Dive
TCP
Proxying
Research
iCloud Private Relay
A technical dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP...
Missing Manuals - io_uring worker pool
February 04, 2022 1:58PM
Kernel
Linux
io_uring
aio
Deep Dive
Chances are you might have heard of io_uring. It first appeared in Linux 5.1, back in 2019, and was advertised as the new API for asynchronous I/O. Its goal was to be an alternative to the deemed-to-be-broken-beyond-repair AIO, the “old” asynchronous I/O API...