Facebook Open-Sources mcrouter Memcached Protocol Router

Facebook announced at its @Scale 2014 conference in San Francisco Monday that it is open-sourcing mcrouter, a memcached protocol router that it uses to handle all traffic to, from and between thousands of cache servers across dozens of clusters distributed in the social network’s data centers.

mcrouter650Facebook announced at its @Scale 2014 conference in San Francisco Monday that it is open-sourcing mcrouter, a memcached protocol router that it uses to handle all traffic to, from and between thousands of cache servers across dozens of clusters distributed in the social network’s data centers.

Software engineers Anton Likhtarov, Rajesh Nishtala and Ryan McElroy described the development of mcrouter in a post on the Facebook engineering blog:

Most Web-based services begin as a collection of front-end application servers paired with databases used to manage data storage.

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