A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services
Pingora is a Rust-based high-performance HTTP proxy and networking framework developed by Cloudflare to eventually replace NGINX. Designed for extreme reliability and memory-safe concurrency, it handles over 40 million requests per second in production and reduces CPU/memory usage significantly compared to traditional web servers.
...From there you are control of making the actual REST call. This means you can reuse your existing HTTP client, use existing authentication schemes and override any part of the REST call. You can override the REST host, proxy incoming request headers along to your REST backend, add caching etc.