# Help - how can I reduce memory footprint of node-red

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**Created:** [16 August 2019 07:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-how-can-i-reduce-memory-footprint-of-node-red/14376 "2019-08-16T07:36:13Z")\
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What I understand, both LoRa App Server and EdgeX supports MQTT. You are not going to use that??

Alternatively, instead of using NR as the "glue", have you considered writing a Python program instead? Might give you the small footprint you are targeting

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