Tiny Objects and Flash
Learn about tiny objects and their importance. Also, know how tiny objects are cached using Flash and what problems are associated with it.
This chapter is inspired by Kangaroo: Caching Billions of Tiny Objects on Flash.
Tiny objects
Tiny objects are small information with a size that is ~100 bytes or less. This information is crucial, unavoidable, and common. You may find them in Facebook’s or LinkedIn’s social graphs, tweets, or metadata.
Need to cache tiny objects
Many web services like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, ...
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