--- title: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich Outline Approaches for... description: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich have identified that AI bot traffic—now exceeding 10 billion requests per week—is severely disrupting traditional CDN and database... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-and-eth-zurich-outline-approaches-for-ai-driven-cache-optimization-lxzhdy1ou twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich Outline Approaches for AI-Driven Cache Optimization | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich have identified that AI bot traffic—now exceeding 10 billion requests per week—is severely disrupting traditional CDN and database... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-and-eth-zurich-outline-approaches-for-ai-driven-cache-optimization-lxzhdy1ou og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lxzhdY1Ou.png og:image:alt: Cloudflare and ETH Zurich Outline Approaches for AI-Driven Cache Optimization og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloudflare and ETH Zurich Outline Approaches for AI-Driven Cache Optimization **[InfoQ](https://daily.dev/sources/infoq)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare and ETH Zurich have identified that AI bot traffic—now exceeding 10 billion requests per week—is severely disrupting traditional CDN and database caching strategies. AI crawlers exhibit 70–100% unique URL access ratios, causing high cache miss rates and displacing human-oriented cached content. Unlike human users, AI bots don't leverage browser caching or session continuity, and their parallel, high-volume requests break assumptions underlying LRU eviction, prefetching, and cache speculation. The proposed solutions include separating human and AI traffic into distinct cache tiers, testing alternative eviction algorithms (LFU, FIFO), adopting ML-driven adaptive caching policies, and exploring pay-per-crawl models to control AI access while preserving cache efficiency. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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