[HN Gopher] Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches
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       Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches
        
       Author : MrBuddyCasino
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2022-10-01 20:52 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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 (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...
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       | And a slightly outdated but mostly accurate description of our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
        
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