Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Costs

Cloudflare is testing a cache transcoding prototype designed to save petabytes of storage capacity by utilizing Pingora and Zstandard to compress uncompressed text responses, based on technical documents released by the edge network provider. By encoding compressible web assets before writing them to disk, the hyperscaler aims to solve physical hardware constraints across its global … Read more

Google Cloud’s 2029 Quantum-Safe Roadmap

Google Cloud has established an aggressive roadmap to migrate its entire infrastructure and customer-facing products to post-quantum cryptography by 2029, a timeline that significantly outpaces traditional government and industry projections, according to company announcements. The initiative aims to protect critical data, digital signatures, and authentication systems against future quantum computers capable of breaking conventional cryptographic … Read more