AI-Bot Traffic Is Reshaping CDN Economics: A Cache Architecture Playbook for 2026
How to redesign cache hierarchy, key strategy, and observability when AI agents become a first-class traffic source.
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5 articlesHuman + Bot Traffic on One Edge: SLO and Cache Architecture for the AI-Crawler Era
A practical playbook for balancing human user performance and exploding AI-bot traffic using cache segmentation, policy lanes, and measurable SLOs.
Designing CDN Cache Strategy for AI Bot Traffic: From Hit Ratio to Intent-Aware Caching
AI crawlers and retrieval bots are reshaping cache economics. Here is a practical architecture for balancing human UX, bot demand, and origin cost.
AI Bots Are Reshaping CDN Economics: A Cache Design Playbook for 2026
From bursty crawler demand to low-hit-ratio retrieval traffic, AI bots force teams to redesign cache policy, observability, and bot governance.
Cloudflare’s AI Cache Discussion Signals a New CDN Architecture Era
AI crawler traffic behaves differently from human traffic; platform teams need cache policies that recognize both.