alt Hacker NewsOxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
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Although Oxy is a closed, internal project, seems like they released part of it under a BSD license. Not the networking part, but a Rust library to create "production-grade systems".
Interesting. No mention of kernel bypass, which Cloudflare was also discussing in 2023-2024.
A proprietary project. I was surprised to realize how little interest I have in these things anymore. I mean genuinely surprised. I suppose I have just seen so many large-corporation-does-something in isolation projects that I make two possibly wrong assumptions.
1) It will never work 2) The article is just advertising. Jobs, products whatever.
There is a third conclusion which is worrisome. That the leadership of the organization just doesn't get it.
I'm not advocating these as correct, just wondering if other readers share my instantaneous reaction of been-there, seen-that, know-how-it-ends.
So why is this surfacing again now and why not a up to date article on Oxy? Which sounds very useful btw.
(2023)
Oxy sounds cool, but proprietary stuff is a hard pass for me. Just give me open-source any day.
Another un-google-able (OXY as in Occidental Petroleum Corp?) name for a Rust project. We just cannot help ourselves.
Stopped reading at proprietary. Seriously why would I care tying my app to something proprietary and have no way out of it?
I spent some time on Friday trying out Cloudflare tunnel and boy was it a bad experience. The big killer was that the tunnel endpoint they gave me had an IPv6-only endpoint that I'm not sure was even valid. None of my devices could connect to it, including macbook, phone, linux, AWS instance...
On top of that I keep running into unexpected roadblocks with Cloudflare, like when I was trying to set up the tunnel they required me to set up a dedicated domain, you can't set up a subdomain of an existing domain. Probably fine if you are rolling it out as a production service, but for just testing it to make sure it even works (see IPv6 comments above), I just wanted to set it up as a subdomain.