Cloudflare Gen 13: Core Explosion, Cache Casualty
Cloudflare just dropped Gen 13 servers: 192 cores, double the speed, half the cache per core. Brilliant evolution or a gamble on Rust's promises?
Cloudflare just dropped Gen 13 servers: 192 cores, double the speed, half the cache per core. Brilliant evolution or a gamble on Rust's promises?
Everyone figured Cloudflare would stick with cache kings like Genoa-X. Instead, they're slashing L3 cache by 6x, piling on cores, and rewriting their guts in Rust for 2x edge compute. Game on.