# 🍔🧠 How Cloudflare Freed 100TB RAM With 5 Cache Changes

DevFeed: [🍔🧠 How Cloudflare Freed 100TB RAM With 5 Cache Changes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-cloudflare-freed-100tb-ram-with-5-cache-changes-18125.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hungrymindsdev.substack.com/p/how-cloudflare-freed-100tb-ram-with>)

Author: Alexandre Zajac

Published: 2026-08-31T15:30:54Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hungry Minds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hungry-minds.md>)

Topics: [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>), [CPU Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu-cache.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [cpu-cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu-cache.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

Cloudflare optimized the storage of DNS cache entries in its Big Pineapple platform through five changes, reducing per-entry memory usage by more than 50% and freeing roughly 100 terabytes across its fleet. The reported changes also increased insert throughput by 43% and reduced lookup latency by 19%.

## Source excerpt

PLUS: Anthropic hardware standard 🤖, Rust state machines 🦀, Agent context compression 💾