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dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one

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Cloud, DevOps & reliabilityNetworking & internet infrastructureDistributed systems

What it is

John Graham-Cumming of Cloudflare talks at dotScale 2015 about handling roughly 10 trillion log lines a month. The talk touches on Cloudflare's hardware, its logging stack and its use of Lua in Nginx.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Mostly cited as a source for details of Cloudflare's architecture, such as LuaJIT-based request inspection and request volumes.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment.”

    Reveals every Cloudflare request passes through LuaJIT attack detection.

    i336_, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Whats your favorite HN thread from 2015?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cloudflare, logging, lua, nginx, infrastructure

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