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    cloudflare/pingora

    A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.

    backend
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    27.8K stars
    1.8K forks
    27.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 114 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #44 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Builds fast, reliable, and programmable network services and proxies using an async Rust framework.
    • Offers memory safety and high performance as a Rust alternative to C/C++ network services with extensive customization APIs.
    • Use for creating high-performance HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 proxies with TLS and gRPC support in Rust.
    • Use for developing customizable load balancers with programmable failover and load balancing strategies.
    • Use for building networked systems requiring graceful reloads and integration with observability tools on Linux and Unix-like systems.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Pingora is a Rust framework to build fast, reliable and programmable networked systems.

    Pingora is battle tested as it has been serving more than 40 million Internet requests per second for more than a few years.

    Excerpt from the cloudflare/pingora README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 8: +4Sep 21: +5

    +625 stars over 89 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +5 on Sep 21.

    Forks

    1.8K+99

    Open issues

    342+44

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