by Michael Piatek Responsiveness is essential for web services. Speed drives user engagement, which drives revenue. To reduce response latency, modern web services are architected to serve as much as possible from in-memory caches. The structure is familiar: a database is split among servers with caches for scaling reads. Over time, caches tends to accumulate more responsibility in the storage sta
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