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11th January 2008 - Link Blog

RubyForge: Starling. “Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.”

Posted 11th January 2008 at 9:47 pm

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