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Scaling Facebook To 140 Million Users
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."
I was losing sleep worrying that people sending me virtual Christmas tree decorations, garden accessories and such would have to wait 3 seconds after they clicked send.
Yea, but if they could do it with Windows, now that would be a challenge!
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
You're wrong, that's five word.
\u262D = \u5350
That link is dead. Could repost a working link?
I really need that application. I get so many viruses.
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
If you want to be *quite* technical (and I think it's quite hilarious we're being modded "informative" and "insightful"), the string "140 millions" would be broken into only four words in correct English: One hundred forty millions.
I presume the "five words" comes from the usual way to say it, one hundred and forty millions, which is technically incorrect as the "and" should refer to the decimal point, as in thirty-two and five one-hundredths.
I am unsure about the hyphen between one and hundred, though...