For more (recent) information on how Facebook uses memcached, Facebook researchers/engineers gave a presentation at NSDI 2013 and published a paper on scaling memcached.
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kayvonf
Awesome. Thanks Tom. I hadn't seen that.
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shabnam
What does unacceptable latency mean?
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LilWaynesFather
I'm not exactly sure on the exact latency, but it means that the latency is long enough that it would not be considered acceptable for its users. Usually latency above 200-250ms would be considered unacceptable.
For more (recent) information on how Facebook uses memcached, Facebook researchers/engineers gave a presentation at NSDI 2013 and published a paper on scaling memcached.
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Awesome. Thanks Tom. I hadn't seen that.
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What does unacceptable latency mean?
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I'm not exactly sure on the exact latency, but it means that the latency is long enough that it would not be considered acceptable for its users. Usually latency above 200-250ms would be considered unacceptable.
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