Pingora is a Rust framework to build fast, reliable and programmable network services. Originally developed by Cloudflare to address Nginx's shortcomings, Pingora is already showing great potential, as newer proxies like River are being built on its foundation. While most of us don't face Cloudflare's level of scale, we do encounter scenarios where flexible application-layer routing is essential for our network services. Pingora's architecture allows us to leverage the full power of Rust in these situations without sacrificing security or performance.