Cloudflare Reclaims 100 TB of RAM by Optimizing Consistent Hashing

Renato Losio — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMT

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%.

By Renato Losio

AWS Introduces Preview of Well-Architected Agent

Renato Losio — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:29:00 GMT

AWS recently announced the preview of the Well-Architected Agent, a service that analyzes environments against Well-Architected best practices and provides prioritized recommendations across cost, security, performance, and reliability. The AI agent can also suggest remediation steps and review infrastructure-as-code before deployment.

By Renato Losio

InfoQ - Infrastructure Optimisation

Cloudflare Reclaims 100 TB of RAM by Optimizing Consistent Hashing

AWS Introduces Preview of Well-Architected Agent