Cloudflare Saves Another 100TB of RAM by Shrinking Hash Ring

Cloudflare shrank the consistent hashing ring for its Pingora-based load balancer, saving roughly 100TB of RAM after math showed the last 90,000 hashes per server yielded only 0.7% better load balance.

2026-09-19 ~ 2026-09-19 · 2 related posts

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