Tired of endless vulnerability scans, bot traffic, and noisy probes cluttering your logs—and wasting your resources? Wish your WAF actually understood your app instead of being just another generic filter?

What if you could build a high-performance, tailored firewall that blocks exactly what you want—with full control?

Thanks to Cloudflare’s open-source Pingora, you can. This Rust create already powers 40+ million requests per second and gives you the perfect base to craft your own custom application guard.

With a bit of Rust, you can:
- Rate-limit like a boss
- Instantly 404 malicious requests from known security lists
- Tailor protection to your exact APIs and patterns

And the best part? Every blocked request means less load, faster performance, and a slightly greener footprint.

No prior Rust experience required—I'll walk you through approachable code that anyone with dev experience can follow.