New comment by sergq in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

sergq — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:35:39 +0000

this applies to more than DNS caches. In 1998 I mailed Microsoft a proposal to replace search engine crawlers with a push-based filesystem monitor (detect change → extract → compress → push to index). Got a 5-line rejection letter. They built the same thing 20 years later as IndexNow. Full story with the original letter: https://dev.to/andrew_vl/in-1998-i-proposed-push-based-searc...

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New comment by sergq in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"