Archive for the 'memcache' Category

THIRD RAIL » Memcached based message queues

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Blog pots shows and explains how to implement simple queue system on top of memcached

High Scalability – High Scalability – Facebook’s Memcached Multiget Hole: More machines != More Capacity 

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

also see http://dormando.livejournal.com/521163.html Describing some problems with performance/scalability you may have if you partition/shard your data by hash. ( that’s what memcached does.) You may hit the cpu bound limit from the amount of requ…