Scaling memcached at Facebook. Fascinating techie details on how Facebook forked memcache to use UDP and increase performance from 50,000 requests a second to 200,000. Now running on 800 servers with 28 TB of memory, and their code is on GitHub. (They may scale like crazy, but they can’t put their blog entry title in the title element?)
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At least this is a big improvement from before I think. Their code is hosted on GitHub now. Prior to this their idea of an Opensource project has been to link to a tarball from their wiki plus one accompanying blog post about the project.
Harish Mallipeddi - 13th December 2008 14:01 - #