CB Engineering

Using eBPF XDP At The Chaturbate Edge

Achieve high performance, low latency packet processing and filtering without traditional nftables/iptables firewalling or hacks like tc ingress hooks at streaming servers to drop typical DoS attack flows without any upstream mitigation support.

Chaturbate Recommends...

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Is There A Simpler Way?

The odds are that if you are reading this blog and you're an engineer, your problem scope is not as big as Google's. You are not Google. It is more impressive to come up with a simple, elegant solution than it is to explain a complicated one to a room full of bewildered onlookers.

The Road to 1 Tbps

Serving free adult content that is coveted by billions of people on the Internet necessitates delivery without interruption (QoS) and mindfulness of the smallest of details in user experience (QoE). This new engineering blog aims to give transparency with respect to challenges faced by the Chaturbate crew and tells an