http://simonwillison.net/2007-05-03T22:36:56+00:00Simon Willison2007-05-03T22:36:56+00:002007-05-03T22:36:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/3/facebook/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-May/004098.html"><p>... Facebook has roughly 200 dedicated memcached servers in its production environment, plus a small number of others for development and so on. A few of those 200 are hot spares. They are all 16GB 4-core AMD64 boxes, just because that's where the price/performance sweet spot is for us right now.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-May/004098.html">Steve Grimm</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/facebook">facebook</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/memcached">memcached</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/steve-grimm">steve-grimm</a></p>