Introduction to Scaling Memcache

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 ...