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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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  1. Jamie Jones Silver badge
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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.

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  2. Nate Amsden

    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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