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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."

3 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Thank goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your mum just added me on facebook

  2. Re:Thank goodness by larry+bagina · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [citation needed]

    --
    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  3. The problem of Facebook by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Friends have been bugging me to put my profile up on Facebook. But I resist. First, I am not 100% sure that once my info is up there, it will not be there when I choose to deactivate my account...or can I delete it?

    Second, I have people who I never want to see me...ever! Facebook does not help on this. I have been "hiding" under the curtain of security. So can someone tell me the pitfalls of Facebook and other social networking sites?