Videos tagged with memcache

Summary Beside presenting the overall Facebook architecture and scaling solutions used, Aditya Agarwal talks about the iterative process of constantly improving the site, making sure to avoid over-engineering and adapting along the way by dropping solutions that worked in the past but are no longer useful. The last part of the session was dedicated to answering questions from the audience. Bio ...

Justin Haugh, Guido van RossumDuring this talk, we'll discuss how to write highly scalable apps on App Engine. We'll describe how an app is granted more instances as traffic grows, and the importance of low latency, low memory usage, concurrency, async APIs, load testing, and profiling. We'll also help you avoid common pitfalls, like entity contention and hot tablets.

Questions and answers part of the Facebook tech presentation where Facebook engineers talk about their use of memcache to provide highly distributable, scalable caching.  

Facebook tech presentation where Facebook engineers talk about their use of memcache to provide highly distributable, scalable caching.  

Summary In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe. Bio Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he helps manage the engineering team and oversees new product desig...

Summary In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do. Bio Tobias Lütke is a co-founder of jadedPixel, creator of Shopify – one of the largest Rails applications on the web. He has been part of the Ruby on Rails core team since its inception and has release...

Jeff Scudder goes over how to improve the efficiency of your App Engine app. Check out the docs: http://code.google.com/appengine