build1 distinct publisher
Shrinking DNS cache entries by half made Cloudflare's inserts 43% faster
Big Pineapple holds more than 250 billion cache entries, so one wasted byte per entry is 250GB of fleet RAM. Cloudflare's fix was mostly a choice of Rust container types, and fewer allocations made the cache quicker rather than slower.
Publishers:blog.cloudflare.com
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68