How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier(memcachier.com)

10 pointsby alex_lodvor 14 Jahren6 comments

How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier

http://www.memcachier.com/how-facebookipodayclosingprice-com-scaled-with-memcachier/

5 comments

nacsvor 14 Jahren

Not to be cynical but this post has virtually no content -- it's simply "We used memcache as a caching layer and not hit the DB. The End"

Didn't we know this a decade ago?

hodgesmrvor 14 Jahren

While some people look at this as "so what?" I did find the post valuable. I've never used memcache before, and this was a good illustration of its use.

joejohnsonvor 14 Jahren

How many hits were they really getting? It appears that only 2261 people made predictions.

alex_lodvor 14 Jahren

It was covered in TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and other big journals, too -- it definitely got a lot of views.

The difference between the small number of updates (2261) and the presumed large number of views is precisely why this was a great use case for memcache/MemCachier. High-read/low-update content is the perfect caching use case.

getsatvor 14 Jahren

Website uses basic caching to survive traffic spike, news at 11.

adventurefulvor 14 Jahren

Had not seen the site before. Amusing how far off nearly everybody was on the pricing.