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Thursday, 7 April 2011
Optimizing Memcached Performance on a Rapidly Growing Site
Predicting operational growth by monitoring the correct metrics:
Such simple data can reveal a wealth of insights. Most important is the cache’s miss rate: how frequently do we need to regenerate data? It is the miss rate that ultimately impacts site performance. Using such data, we were shocked to discover that we were caching a lot less than we thought, and that our cache actually behaved quite erratically, with a greater than 2x difference between peak and trough miss rates
The story reminded me of the Foursquare accident.
Original title and link: Optimizing Memcached Performance on a Rapidly Growing Site (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://technology.posterous.com/planning-and-engineering-your-cache-for-maxim-0
