https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Performance Tuning News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-hashing-optimization/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Performance+Tuning-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-hashing-optimization/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1790410589563.jpg"/><p>Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used statistical analysis of hash distribution and collision rates to reduce the number of hashes per backend by about 90%.</p> <i>By Renato Losio</i> Rust Infrastructure Optimisation Cloudflare Load Balancing Performance Tuning Hashing DevOps Architecture & Design Development news Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/cloudflare-hashing-optimization/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Performance+Tuning-news Renato Losio 2026-10-24T08:10:00Z /news/2026/10/cloudflare-hashing-optimization/en