This was a fantastic article! Really cool to see not just how Facebook handles caching, but handles caching in a way that is distributed across the world. I especially liked how you talked about the tradeoffs they considered with latency versus stale data.
Comprehensive breakdown of Facebook's Memcache! What I love about these well-researched issue is that I often learn the names of the systems/algorithms I already implemented. For example, I had no idea these are called a ”demand-filled look-aside cache”, but I definitely built them! Thanks Saurabh!
This was a fantastic article! Really cool to see not just how Facebook handles caching, but handles caching in a way that is distributed across the world. I especially liked how you talked about the tradeoffs they considered with latency versus stale data.
Thanks for the great feedback Jimmy!
Comprehensive breakdown of Facebook's Memcache! What I love about these well-researched issue is that I often learn the names of the systems/algorithms I already implemented. For example, I had no idea these are called a ”demand-filled look-aside cache”, but I definitely built them! Thanks Saurabh!
Thanks Akos!
Glad to know you enjoyed this lengthy piece.😊
Trying to write these deep dives on an alternate basis to see whether folks are interested in going deep with a particular topic.