Cliffhanger: Scaling Performance Cliffs in Web Memory Caches

Web-scale applications are heavily reliant on memory cache systems such as Memcached to improve throughput and reduce user latency. Small performance improvements in these systems can result in large end-to-end gains. For example, a marginal increase in hit rate of 1% can reduce the application laye...

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Main Authors: Cidon, Asaf, Eisenman, Assaf, Katti, Sachin, Alizadeh Attar, Mohammadreza
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: USENIX Association 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110700
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0014-6742