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Chiranjeet Baruah · 2026-07-16T02:23:15.359Z

Executive summary. In 2013, a team at Facebook published Scaling Memcache at Facebook (NSDI '13), describing how they took memcached — a dead-simple, single-machine in-memory hash table — and grew it

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One Hash Table, a Billion Users: How Facebook Turned `memcached` Into a Trillion-Item Cache — and What Changed in the Decade After

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