How Facebookipodayclosingprice.com Scaled with MemCachier

Not to be cynical but this post has virtually no content -- it's simply "We used memcache as a caching layer and not hit the DB. The End"

Didn't we know this a decade ago?

While some people look at this as "so what?" I did find the post valuable. I've never used memcache before, and this was a good illustration of its use.

How many hits were they really getting? It appears that only 2261 people made predictions.

It was covered in TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and other big journals, too -- it definitely got a lot of views.

The difference between the small number of updates (2261) and the presumed large number of views is precisely why this was a great use case for memcache/MemCachier. High-read/low-update content is the perfect caching use case.

Website uses basic caching to survive traffic spike, news at 11.

Had not seen the site before. Amusing how far off nearly everybody was on the pricing.