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Intro to Caching,Caching algorithms and caching frameworks part 1

General Chicken

Jan 17, 2009

Informative and well organized post on caching. Talks about: Why do we need cache?, What is Cache?, Cache Hit, Cache Miss, Storage Cost, Retrieval Cost, Invalidation, Replacement Policy, Optimal Replacement Policy, Caching Algorithms, Least Frequently Used (LFU), Least Recently Used (LRU), Least Recently Used 2(LRU2), Two Queues, Adaptive Replacement Cache (ACR), Most Recently Used (MRU), First in First out (FIFO), Distributed caching, Measuring Cache.

Kafka 101

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. Originally developed in LinkedIn during 2011, Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source Apache projects out there. So far it

Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

This blog post was written by Dedeepya Bonthu. This is a repost from her Medium article, approved by the author. In stadiums, sports fans love to express themselves by cheering for their favorite teams, holding up placards and team logos. Emoji’s allow fans at home to rapidly express themselves,

Brief History of Scaling Uber

This blog post was written by Josh Clemm, Senior Director of Engineering at Uber Eats. This is a repost from his LinkedIn article, approved by the author. On a cold evening in Paris in 2008, Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp couldn't get a cab. That's when

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale

This is a guest article by Stanislav Kozlovski, an Apache Kafka Committer. If you would like to connect with Stanislav, you can do so on Twitter and LinkedIn. AWS S3 is a service every engineer is familiar with. It’s the service that popularized the notion of cold-storage to the

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Kafka 101

Capturing A Billion Emo(j)i-ons

Brief History of Scaling Uber

Behind AWS S3’s Massive Scale