CloudFlare And Open Source Software: A Two-Way Street

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This post details Cloudflare's extensive use of open source software (nginx, PostgreSQL, Kyoto Tycoon, OpenResty, gcc, make, Go, Lua, Python, Perl, PHP, Sentry, Kibana, Nagios, Linux) and their contributions back to the community. It highlights specific open source projects they use and have contributed to, such as Go's log/syslog module and LuaJIT sponsorship. The post also discusses the benefits of open sourcing their own code and the practice of hiring engineers based on open source contributions.