Yandex open-sources YaFF, a technology that reduce server CPU usage by up to 20%

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Yandex has open-sourced YaFF, a data transmission technology built to cut server CPU usage by reducing deserialization overhead. The company says YaFF can lower CPU load by up to 20% in high-load environments and help teams avoid costly infrastructure expansion. YaFF works with existing Protobuf schemas and APIs, which makes it easier to adopt without large rewrites or migrations. Yandex is releasing the technology on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license for developers to test and contribute. The launch reinforces Yandex’s broader open-source infrastructure portfolio for large-scale production systems.

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