River
Configurable reverse proxy from the Pingora project
River is a reverse-proxy application built on Cloudflare's Pingora engine, providing a configurable binary for HTTP proxying and load balancing. It is self-hosted and configured through files.
Key features
- Pingora-based
- Load balancing
- File-driven config
- Memory-safe Rust
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Active community (2.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Rust
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
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