A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)
porridgeraisin · hn · 2026-09-09
A Hacker News favorite: Part 1 of a biography of Lee Holloway, one of the architects behind Cloudflare's core technology, tracing his path to building the reverse-proxy and security stack that powers the company.
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