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by mtourne 3990 days ago
Rewriting the hodge podge of C, Perl and other custom bits of Nginx almost entirely in Lua and hiring its maintainer Yichun in the process where important steps for scaling up the CloudFlare's CDN and make sure each node is running as hot as possible.

More on this from dotScale 2015: https://youtu.be/LA-gNoxSLCE?t=7m40s