Post gains attention on Hacker News
2 Nov 2 9:47 AM · 9d ago · 1 article · 2 posts · 8 comments · 3 sources · development 2 of 2
The Cloudflare blog post reached Hacker News frontpage with 175 points and 70 comments, drawing discussion about the optimization effort and its broader implications.
“Cloudflare always had a pretty strong culture around optimisation. If you go back and read the blog there are a lot of blogs about reducing CPU, latency, RAM, etc. through software. It's one of the key features of how Cloudflare has been successful and an important part of succeeding in today's world.”
jgrahamc, Former Cloudflare CTO · hn ↗Cloudflare DNS infrastructure providerAlex Fattouche Cloudflare author
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>Curious what the R&D / efficiency development ROI is on reducing memory footprint. I suppose we should both consider current ROI and near future ROI (as the price of memory will likely stay high for at least another 1-2 years).It is a pretty small niche of companies where compute resource efficiency on the server side has a meaningful business…
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Cloudflare always had a pretty strong culture around optimisation. If you go back and read the blog there are a lot of blogs about reducing CPU, latency, RAM, etc. through software. It's one of the key features of how Cloudflare has been successful and an important part of succeeding in today's world.Source: I was Cloudflare's CTO.
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I have been wondering if the memory scarcity would lead to a desire to optimize software to be more efficient.Curious what the R&D / efficiency development ROI is on reducing memory footprint. I suppose we should both consider current ROI and near future ROI (as the price of memory will likely stay high for at least another 1-2 years).
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Coincidentally, I just got angry this weekend about my Mac with 64GB of RAM going OOM because of poorly optimized applications. Use of web tech, especially Electron, was common among basically all of the offending applications. Whether Electron itself or just poor coding, I'm not sure, but there's a pattern.
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I used to use cloudflare dns, but the same cloudflare harassed me the entire day testing if I'm a robot. The harassment ended after I switched the dns server. See you never again, clouflare
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I'm very curious about the bugs (before vs. after relational) that come from an improvement like this over time
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Isn't 700 changes a second like... really low, considering their scale and amount of domains they manage ?
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Cloudflare doesn't get enough credit for their series of overall great technical blog posts.
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