[HN Gopher] Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches ___________________________________________________________________ Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches Author : MrBuddyCasino Score : 60 points Date : 2022-10-01 20:52 UTC (3 days ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | extrememacaroni wrote: | For a moment I thought this would be about stationery. | thinkingfish wrote: | I'm a big fan of their fountain pens and the piston filling | mechanism. | thinkingfish wrote: | Project creator here, didn't expect to see the link on HN :P | | Here's the latest code architecture diagram: | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pelikan-io/pelikan-io.gith... | | And a slightly outdated but mostly accurate description of our | motivation. https://www.pelikan.io/2019/why-pelikan.html | | #AMA We've done a few research-y and go-to-production projects in | the last few years. | skyde wrote: | I have a question for someone with your expertise. Why not use | the CLOCK-Pro cache eviction algorithm in a system like this? | lbhdc wrote: | This is really interesting. Thanks for open sourcing it! | ithkuil wrote: | What is momento? | thinkingfish wrote: | It's a SaaS startup offering managed cache (like Elastic | Cache). They have their own protocol but uses Pelikan- | segcache as one of their backends. | MikeYasnev007 wrote: | nequo wrote: | I like this bird pun. Another project at Twitter with a bird pun | for a name: Summingbird. | | https://github.com/twitter/summingbird ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-04 23:00 UTC)