How we could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
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What happened
Memory costs are increasing dramatically. Both RAM and hard disk drive prices have exploded over the past year. At Cloudflare, we run several massively distributed storage products (including our famous CDN) that rely on making efficient use of the memory we have deployed so we can continue to serve all of our customers. With this in mind, we prototyped a way to expand effective cache capacity. By encoding eligible…
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