Facebook’s Memcache Distributed In-memory Caching

Facebook’s Memcache Distributed In-memory Caching

by | Nov 17, 2025

Examines Facebook’s use of Memcache, a distributed, scalable in-memory key-value store caching data to reduce backend load and improve performance. Discusses architecture, consistency challenges, caching policies, failure handling, and optimizations for high throughput and low latency.

by | Nov 12, 2025

Lecture on distributed systems design covering stateful vs stateless server architectures, distributed data stores (Dynamo key-value store, Bigtable, Cassandra), Google File System, reliability engineering, replication, partitioning, and e-commerce system architecture.