Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users - NYTimes.com

Facebook Growth Explodes, Site Reaches 140 Million Active Users - NYTimes.com: "'the Facebook engineering team has been tweaking its use of memcached, and says it can now handle 200,000 UDP requests per second. Facebook has detailed its refinements to memcached, which it hopes will be included in the official memcached repository. For now, their changes have been released to github.'"