Edge Rewrite
// HTMLRewriter · presentation

This page was redesigned at the edge.

Cloudflare fetched the original article and streamed it through HTMLRewriter to apply an entirely new visual system without rebuilding the source page.

// request.cf · coarse context

A page that knows where it met you.

Only coarse request metadata is shown. This demo does not display or persist visitor IP addresses.

Country
US
Cloudflare location
CMH
Connection
HTTP/2
Language
Not provided

Ray ID: a21b3d83aa521709

Jump to content

Talk:Hyperscale computing

Page contents not supported in other languages.
Add topic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latest comment: 1 month ago by Nerdcorenet in topic reads like an advertisement

reads like an advertisement

[edit]

"Hyperscale computing is necessary in order to build a robust and scalable cloud, big data, map reduce, or distributed storage system and is often associated with the infrastructure required to run large distributed sites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, or Cloudflare." ....uh, ok. It's not really clear what it is other than buzz words and company names. treasuretron (talk) 23:04, 14 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Agreed. This is marketing hype.
"In computing, hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system."
So, it scales infinitely for any amount of usage?
This is not tied to CPU architecture, as mentioned in the introductory paragraph; There is nothing intrinsically infinitely scalable about amd64, arm, risc-v, etc. Nerdcorenet (talk) 00:55, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply