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Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency

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The zeroserve HTTPS server has introduced a Caddy-compatible mode that JIT-compiles Caddyfiles into eBPF and native machine code. This update allows for high-performance reverse proxying with significantly lower latency and higher throughput.

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This innovation demonstrates the growing trend of using eBPF for high-performance networking, potentially disrupting traditional web server architectures.

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#tech #zeroserve zeroserve is a high-performance HTTPS server that runs eBPF scripts in userspace ( intro ). Now it's got a Caddy-compat mode - when provided a Caddyfile, zeroserve JIT-compiles it to eBPF and then to native x86_64/ARM64 machine code, and runs it in an io_uring event loop.

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