Come hear Facebook engineers discuss how they build scalable caching systems at Data@Scale Boston. Read the full abstract below and check out the agenda at dataatscaleboston.splashthat/. “Building Scalable Caching Systems With Mcrouter” Modern large scale web infrastructures rely heavily on distributed caching (e.g memcached) to process user requests. These caches serve as a temporary holding spot for the most commonly accessed data. However, this makes these services very sensitive to cache performance and reliability. Mcrouter is the lynchpin of Facebook’s caching infrastructure. It handles the basics of routing requests to the appropriate hosts and managing the responses in a highly performant way. In addition, there are a lot of features in mcrouter that have been designed to dramatically improve the reliability of the caching infrastructure. The problems that mcrouter addresses are not specific to Facebook, but distributed caching systems in general. As a result, Instagram and Reddit have also adopted mcrouter as the primary communication layer to their cache tiers. Mcrouter is open source software and we hope it will be useful in many other applications that rely on caching. This talk gives a very brief overview of mcrouter and the basics of integrating it into different pieces of infrastructure.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:00:02 +0000
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