Cloudflare was able to save 100TB of memory on its Big Pineapple platform by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache.
When it's cheaper for Cloudflare to optimize DNS to that degree over buying more RAM, you know the AI/Data Center a-holes have f*cked us all.
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.