Cloudflare cuts DNS cache memory footprint by 56% to free 100TB
Cloudflare redesigned the memory layout of its DNS cache entries, reducing each from 953 to 420 bytes. This freed about 100TB of RAM across its fleet, equivalent to 130 servers' worth of DDR5. The changes also improved insert throughput by 43% and reduced lookup latency by 19%.
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