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Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lotta-load dept.

1sockchuck writes "Facebook now has 140 million users, and in recent weeks has been adding 600,000 new users a day. To keep pace with that growth, the Facebook engineering team has been tweaking its use of memcached, and says it can now handle 200,000 UDP requests per second. Facebook has detailed its refinements to memcached, which it hopes will be included in the official memcached repository. For now, their changes have been released to github."

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  1. Get a life by strikeleader · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    140 million people that need to get a life.

  2. Re:Pretty impressive operation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    at least for me being a 38yo undergrad.

    Wow, and I thought my taking six years to graduate from college was bad. Hopefully you're getting some good tail from confused 20 year olds (okay -- 'confused' is redundant here). Once you're too enfeebled by age to be able to lift your own 40, it's probably time to graduate.

  3. Re:[Unintelligible] Facebook [Unintelligible] by critical_point · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You and 140 million others...