Facebook builds 'McDipper' – memcached for flash
For some things you need DRAM, but for everything else there's flash. At least that's the message Facebook gave on Tuesday when it took the wraps off 'McDipper', a technology the social network has developed to let it save on memory and get more out of its flash. In a post to the Facebook engineering blog that is sure to get …
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McDipper
Hark! I hear the distant rumblings of a gavel (Anyone think of a better collective noun for lawyers?) of Mcdonalds lawyers coming.
Increase your RAM using the HARD DISK!
It's the 90's all over again!
Why are new computers often still stuck on 4 gig of RAM? Is it just me or is Moores law of memory quantities installed in PC's far too flat?
It's not just Windows 8 that's killing the deskstop market.
Curious that a social networking site is leading the way.
Re: Increase your RAM using the HARD DISK!
>>> Why are new computers often still stuck on 4 gig of RAM?
Because it keeps the costs down, and most people don't need that much anyway.
fusion io with memcache
haven't needed it myself but for those who need a more generic memcached for flash
http://www.fusionio.com/load/-media-/1a7jn7/docsLibrary/Fusion-io_and_memcached.pdf
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