September 13, 2026•1 min read•from InfoQ

Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements

Cloudflare recently described a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible cache content, mainly uncompressed text such as HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript, using Zstandard before storing it on disk. The hyperscaler estimates that the approach could provide petabytes of additional effective cache capacity, although broader testing is still needed.

By Renato Losio

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