---
title: "How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-facebook-served-billions-of-requests-per-second-using-memcached-mbamqern4
source_url: https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-facebook-served-billions-of-requests
type: article
source: "ByteByteGo"
published: 2024-05-14T15:36:37.305Z
updated: 2024-05-14T15:36:36.377Z
tags: ["performance"]
reading_time: 17
upvotes: 84
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached

**[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 17 min read · 84 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Learn how Facebook enhanced Memcached to build a distributed key-value store and scale it to serve billions of requests per second. Discover the challenges in scaling Memcached, including managing latency and failures within a cluster, reducing load on the database, and handling consistency across regions.

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