Your Artifact Registry Doesn't Need 2 GB of RAM
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Every team eventually needs an artifact registry. You need somewhere to push Docker images, host internal npm packages, or cache Maven dependencies so your builds don't break when a mirror goes down. The standard answer is Nexus or Artifactory. Both work. Both are also Java applications that need a JVM, a database, careful heap tuning, and at least 2 GB of RAM before they'll serve a single artifact. On a CI server that's already running builds, that memory budget hurts. One developer decided th