Saving 100TB of RAM with Math and Rust
Cloudflare reclaimed 100TB of RAM in Pingora services. An exploration of memory management using math and Rust.
Cloudflare operates thousands of servers globally, where memory usage is critical. Small improvements can lead to significant differences; tweaks to Pingora-based services reclaimed over 100TB of RAM. This article discusses algorithm changes that reduced memory usage and the mathematical concepts behind them.
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