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Origin Range Requests: Serving large files without range-request tuning

calendar_today October 23, 2026 person Matthew Gumport domain cloudflare

Naive byte-range caching can waste gigabytes of origin bandwidth on small requests. We rebuilt our cache architecture in Pingora to coordinate partial fetches automatically, cutting R2 p99 latency in half.

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