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Cloudflare tests cache compression with Zstandard and Pingora

Cloudflare prototyped using compression algorithms Zstandard and Pingora within its cache to increase storage capacity without additional hardware. This approach aims to save petabytes of cache space by reducing data size.

Source: Cloudflare Blog · blog.cloudflare.com Published 2026-09-01T12:59:00+00:00 Detected 2026-09-04T05:21:41+00:00
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Cloudflare prototyped using compression algorithms Zstandard and Pingora within its cache to increase storage capacity without additional hardware. This approach aims to save petabytes of cache space by reducing data size.

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Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.

Increasing cache efficiency can improve performance and reduce costs by maximizing existing hardware capabilities. This technique could influence how large-scale caching systems manage storage in AI search and other data-intensive applications.

Hardware and robotics watchers may want to track whether this becomes a product, benchmark, or deployment signal.

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