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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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At Kactus, we are a Ruby and Rails shop using Heroku to host our applications and thus we do not have access to the web server configuration. When the problem arised approximately 4 years ago - at the time of this writing - we didn't have many options apart from reverse proxying from the application server directly. We used a Ruby gem called rack-reverse-proxy which implements a Rack middleware used to proxy requests to a foreign service.
About a year ago, we setup Cloudflare as our edge server and CDN. All requests pass through it and are optimized to deliver a top notch experience to our users. Since Cloudflare sits in front of our application server, we wondered if there was any way we could route incoming requests to different endpoints, and stumbled upon Cloudflare Workers. Workers are serverless environments that can execute code on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare docs have great examples of applications for this however the one that interests us is proxying requests.
About a year ago, we setup Cloudflare as our edge server and CDN. All requests pass through it and are optimized to deliver a top notch experience to our users. Since Cloudflare sits in front of our application server, we wondered if there was any way we could route incoming requests to different endpoints, and stumbled upon Cloudflare Workers. Workers are serverless environments that can execute code on the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare docs have great examples of applications for this however the one that interests us is proxying requests.