alt Hacker NewsObvious question: why wasn’t this done earlier? It looks like all the data was already available. At THAT scale, reducing memory usage is a must-have, not a nice-to-have. Weird.
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yieldcrv • yesterday at 9:37 PM
probably agents going through tech debt or finding wins
every dept knows what they could do with more budget, the budget for those things just never comes
now agents have utilized budget more effeftively, unbottlenecking many things, including engineering blogs
Cloudflare talks about having datacenters in 300+ cities. Presumably they have at least a few servers per datacenter. They saved 130 servers worth of memory... not even the minimum number of servers they have (seriously though, they probably have a LOT of servers)... a few GBs of memory per server running the service. At that scale this is a nice-to-have.