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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
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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.
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