How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier

How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier(memcachier.com)

10 points by alex_lod 13 years ago | 6 comments

nacs 13 years ago |

Not to be cynical but this post has virtually no content -- it's simply "We used memcache as a caching layer and not hit the DB. The End"

Didn't we know this a decade ago?

hodgesmr 13 years ago |

While some people look at this as "so what?" I did find the post valuable. I've never used memcache before, and this was a good illustration of its use.

joejohnson 13 years ago |

How many hits were they really getting? It appears that only 2261 people made predictions.

alex_lod 13 years ago | |

It was covered in TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and other big journals, too -- it definitely got a lot of views.

The difference between the small number of updates (2261) and the presumed large number of views is precisely why this was a great use case for memcache/MemCachier. High-read/low-update content is the perfect caching use case.

getsat 13 years ago |

Website uses basic caching to survive traffic spike, news at 11.

adventureful 13 years ago |

Had not seen the site before. Amusing how far off nearly everybody was on the pricing.