Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.
474 points by f311a 33 days ago blog.cloudflare.com 114 comments

Summary

Cloudflare has found a way to significantly reduce RAM usage in one of its services by applying statistical methods. This achievement highlights the ongoing efforts to optimize resource consumption in large-scale cloud environments.

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