Last week Cloudflare published a post about cutting roughly 100 TB of RAM out of their internal load balancer. They didn't do it with a rewrite or new hardware. They counted how many hash points their

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The sampling argument is the part people miss: you rarely need every row, you need a representative one.
Erik Johansson
Embedded systems, C on small devices and the limits you cannot design around.
On a microcontroller this whole conversation happens at a scale where every allocation is visible.