# Hugging Face — Rearchitecting Hugging Face Uploads and Downloads

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-11-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/rearchitecting-uploads-and-downloads
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1791-rearchitecting-hugging-face-uploads-and-downloads

Hugging Face announces a redesign of the Hub's upload and download architecture, introducing a content-addressed store (CAS) for a custom protocol that analyzes files at the byte level to improve transfer speeds and enable deduplication.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/rearchitecting-uploads-and-downloads:

> To push Hugging Face infrastructure beyond its current limits, we are redesigning the Hub’s upload and download architecture. We plan to insert a content-addressed store (CAS) as the first stop for content distribution.

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