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Low-Level Linux: Technical Deep Dives

The Linux ecosystem offers an amazing array of tools and capabilities — and Cloudflare's engineers are often pushing them to their limit, and beyond. Tune in for insights on how Cloudflare's team is extending Linux to help power its global network.

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The Linux ecosystem offers an amazing array of tools and capabilities — and Cloudflare's engineers are often pushing them to their limit, and beyond. Tune in for insights on how Cloudflare's team is extending Linux to help power its global network.

Listen to the Low-Level Linux: Technical Deep Dives Podcast on the go

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How to share IPv4 addresses by partitioning the port space
Back in September, we gave a talk at Linux Plumbers 2022 conference on what challenges we face today when sharing an egress IP between Linux hosts, and how Linux networking API could be improved to facilitate this use case. Join Jakub, Marek, and...

Missing Manuals - io_uring worker pool
Join Cloudflare Systems Engineer Jakub Sitnicki for a technical deep dive into io_uring and its worker pool. You can access the mindmap featured in this presentation at this link: https://cftv-io-uring.pages.dev/ For more, don't miss the companion...

Making socket lookup in Linux programmable with BPF - a retrospective
Cloudflare outgrew the Linux network stack, and fixing it took three years. Join us to discover why it took so long, what mistakes were made along the way, and why we should've used an ioctl() after all! Read the blog posts: Abusing Linux's firewall:...