Handling large amounts of traffic on the Edge
summary
CloudFlare handles edge traffic with concrete numbers and tools: 152 data centers in 74 countries, serving ~10 million domains and ~7 million requests/sec on average, and facing attacks up to ~942 GB/s and 1.5 TB/s. A gate process samples packets, sends aggregates to core, compiles mitigations, and pushes rules back via key‑value storage within minutes. Mitigation and load balancing use eBPF/XDP (kernel hooks), kernel bypass for user‑space, Maglev ideas, and FPGA experiments; XDP drops 10 million packets/sec.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:51Bgp Protocol
- 10:22Google Maglev Implementation of Load Balancing
- 12:51Fpga Packet Packet Processing
- 13:52Three Main Types of Attacks
- 15:07Protocol Attack
- 18:58Criminal Bypass
- 22:58Bonus Part
- 23:59Ip Address Migration
