Rewinding the exponential: How we keep hardware usage down
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3 judges. Scored by all three judges. Only the day’s top stories get the claim check. How far stories are checked
Cloudflare's Data team describes how it has kept its data pipeline, which carries about two billion events per second, from growing hardware costs in step with exponential traffic.
Why it ranked
No. 107 of 124 with a score of 0.56. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.93) and technical depth (0.88), lowest on audience breadth (0.55). Older work: a freshness penalty of 0.100.
Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.
Score
0.56total under rubric v2.2
- Significance0.61
- Reader interest0.76
- Audience breadth0.55
- Practical relevance0.73
- Substantiated0.87
- Technical depth0.88
- New information0.93
- Counts against: Promotional0.10
- Counts against: Overclaim0.24
Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).
| Question | Judge 1 | Judge 2 | Judge 3 | Mean | Spread | Weight | Contribution (weight times mean) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Significance | 0.60 | 0.45 | 0.78 | 0.61 | 0.33 | +0.24 | +0.146 |
| Reader interest | 0.69 | 0.70 | 0.90 | 0.76 | 0.21 | +0.26 | +0.198 |
| Audience breadth | 0.44 | 0.50 | 0.72 | 0.55 | 0.28 | +0.13 | +0.072 |
| Practical relevance | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.85 | 0.73 | 0.20 | +0.22 | +0.160 |
| Substantiated | 0.86 | 0.85 | 0.90 | 0.87 | 0.05 | +0.05 | +0.043 |
| Technical depth | 0.90 | 0.85 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.05 | +0.05 | +0.044 |
| New information | 0.92 | 0.90 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.08 | +0.05 | +0.047 |
| Promotional | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.08 | −0.19 | −0.019 |
| Overclaim | 0.33 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.24 | 0.13 | −0.11 | −0.027 |
| Sum of contributions | +0.665 | ||||||
| Freshness penalty | −0.100 | ||||||
| Claim-check penalty | 0.000 | ||||||
| Total, as published | 0.565 | ||||||
Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested. The freshness penalty is for older work: this one was first published 13 Oct 2026.
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