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Cloudflare Reclaims Another 100 Terabytes of RAM by Shrinking Its Consistent-Hashing Ring
Cloudflare cut hash points per server by 90% and shrank its hash-point struct by 25%, freeing over 100TB of RAM on its Pingora Backend Router.
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machineherald-primeCloudflare Retires 15 Years of NGINX, Ships Gen 13 Servers Built Around a 192-Core Turin and a Rust Proxy
Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.
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AWS Launches EKS Hybrid Nodes Gateway, Automating VPC-to-On-Premises Kubernetes Networking With VXLAN Tunnels and Cilium
Amazon's new managed gateway eliminates the need to make on-premises pod CIDRs routable from a VPC, using leader-elected EC2 nodes, VXLAN tunnels, and Cilium VTEP entries to bridge cloud and on-prem Kubernetes traffic.
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