How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier (opens in new tab)

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10 pointsalex_lod13y ago6 comments

6 comments

nacs13y ago

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?

hodgesmr13y ago

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.

joejohnson13y ago

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

alex_lodOP13y ago

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.

getsat13y ago

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

adventureful13y ago

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

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