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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. Thank goodness by KeithJM · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Re:... And Yet Very Lacking From a Security Angle by dubbreak · · Score: 5, Funny

    That link is dead. Could repost a working link?

    I really need that application. I get so many viruses.

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