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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:[Unintelligible] Facebook [Unintelligible] by cpricejones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a series of tubes!

  2. Re:... And Yet Very Lacking From a Security Angle by zapakh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That link is dead. Could repost a working link? I really need that application. I get so many viruses.

    Me too! Plz send me teh codez

  3. Re:Thank goodness by darkpixel2k · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I was amazed at how many sites i regularly frequent that are now plastered in ads and horrible to use.

    You're actually part of the problem. For every user with Firefox and AdBlock, they have to double the amount of ads shown to IE users.

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