Josh Aas writing on the Prossimo blog:
The River reverse proxy recently has come a long way since we announced the project in February.
River is a project of Prossimo, itself a project of the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) project. ISRG are the folks behind Let’s Encrypt. The River reverse proxy is implemented in Rust.
Just about every significantly-sized deployment on the Internet makes use of reverse proxy software, and the most commonly deployed reverse proxy software is not memory safe. This means that most deployments have millions of lines of C and C++ handling incoming traffic at the edges of their networks, a risk that needs to be addressed if we are to have greater confidence in the security of the Internet.
Our own goal is to have River ready to replace Nginx and other reverse proxy software used by Let’s Encrypt within the next year, and we encourage other organizations to start considering where they might start to improve the security of their networks with memory safe proxy software.
That would constitute quite a significant production deployment for the project.