Scaling Memcache Deep Dive for System Design

Key-value stores and big data

When designing large-scale social media websites, we need to understand that there are huge volumes of data and that a number of requests are being made. The large scale of data on such platforms entails very intense load and spontaneous I/O requests, which might not be optimized using prefetchingPrefetching loads data into the cache before the user requests it..

This is where caching in memory can be used to allow for linear scaling. A key-value store ...