Facebook Releases New Version Of Flashcache

Facebook continued to pursue ways of making data storage more efficient with its release of a new version of Flashcache, with Production Database Engineer Domas Mituzas saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the 3.x series boosted average hit rates from 60 percent to 80 percent and cut the social network’s disk operation rate nearly in half.

Facebook continued to pursue ways of making data storage more efficient with its release of a new version of Flashcache, with Production Database Engineer Domas Mituzas saying in a note on the Facebook Engineering page that the 3.x series boosted average hit rates from 60 percent to 80 percent and cut the social network’s disk operation rate nearly in half.

The note by Mituzas offers a detailed look at Flashcache, but here are some highlights:

Facebook first started using Flashcache in 2010.

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