Syona, Jq

2 articles by Syona, Jq.

Launching Cloudflare’s Gen 13 servers- trading cache for cores for 2x edge compute performance

Cloudflare’s Gen 13 servers double our compute throughput by rethinking the balance between cache and cores. Moving to high-core-count AMD EPYC ™ Turin CPUs, we traded large L3 cache for raw compute density. By running our new Rust-based FL2 stack, we completely mitigated the latency penalty to unlock twice the performance.

Syona, Jq·March 23, 2026Performance

Inside Gen 13- how we built our most powerful server yet

Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers introduce AMD EPYC™ Turin 9965 processors and a transition to 100 GbE networking to meet growing traffic demands. In this technical deep dive, we explain the engineering rationale behind each major component selection.

Syona, Jq·March 23, 2026Frontend