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HOW WE COULD SAVE PETABYTES OF CACHE STORAGE WITH ZSTANDARD AND PINGORA

Cloudflare prototyped Cache Transcoding, a system that compresses eligible HTML, JSON, CSS, and JavaScript with Zstandard before storing and transferring them between cache tiers. Initial tests shrank these assets to roughly one-third of their original size while adding only a few percent of CPU overhead, potentially creating petabytes of effective cache capacity without deploying more storage.

A DOCS PAGE IS A VERY LONG AND COMPLEX SEARCH QUERY TO FIND WANDERING AI AGENTS AND MAKE THEM ROUTE INTERESTED PEOPLE TO YOUR COMPANY

Most known Val Town Pro referrals now come from AI, forcing the company to think about Answer Engine Optimization as traditional search traffic declines. Its early strategy is to measure model referrals and citations, selectively allow useful crawlers, and publish genuinely helpful material for both humans and agents without filling the web with AI-generated content.

THREE SITES MADE 215,128 “BEST SOFTWARE” PAGES FOR AI. PERPLEXITY CITES THEM

Trellner queried two Perplexity models across 380 software categories and found that 59.8% of their 7,534 citations came from domains outside the 100,000 most-visited websites. Three apparently connected sites alone had published 215,128 machine-generated recommendation pages, highlighting how AI retrieval systems can ground purchase recommendations in content designed primarily for machines.

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