The first pre-release of Cloud Cup, introducing a high-performance reverse proxy with robust features.

Cloud Cup v0.1.0-alpha.1 Pre-release

Release Date: 2024-11-24

We are thrilled to announce the first pre-release of Cloud Cup! 🎉
This version lays the foundation for a powerful, high-performance reverse proxy with a focus on configurability, fault tolerance, and scalability.

🚀 v0.1.0-alpha.1 - First Release

🎉 Key Features

Core Functionality

Configurable JSON-based setup for:
- Server address and port.
- SSL settings.
- Flexible route definitions.
Dynamic hot-reload support via the cupctl CLI.
Advanced routing system:
- Support for default (*) and wildcard (/example/*) routes.
- Configurable backends with failover (max_failure setting).

Load Balancing

Default round-robin strategy for efficient traffic distribution.
Independent epoll and thread pools per worker, enabling high-concurrency request handling.

SSL

Optional SSL support with certificates and private keys for secure HTTPS connections.

Fault Tolerance

Failure management:
- Backends automatically recover after successful requests.
- Prevents infinite retries when all backends are down.

Scalability

Multiple worker processes listening on the same address and port.
- The kernel seamlessly distributes incoming requests among workers.

🔧 Improvements & Optimizations

Highly optimized for handling concurrent requests.
Designed to be lightweight and efficient, making it a strong alternative to traditional load balancers.

📌 What's Next

We’re actively working on new features and bug fixes for the next release, including:

Advanced routing strategies:
- Weighted round-robin.
- Least-connections.
Metrics for monitoring backend performance and analyzing traffic patterns.
Expanded protocol support:
- HTTP/2 integration.

⚠️ Pre-release Notice

This is an alpha release of Cloud Cup (v0.1.0-alpha.1).
It is not recommended for production use. We encourage testing in development environments and reporting any issues to help us improve.

Cloud Cup

v0.1.0-alpha.1