Memcached Architecture | The Backend Engineer...

I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering.Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Performance iss ...  Show more

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests. 

In this episode, we’re diving deep into one of the recent announcements from AWS re:Invent, the release of Amazon ElasticCache Serverless. This new option allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. Jill ...  Show more

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet. 

Scott and Wes dive into the cache problem, tackling user-specific data and caching security. From marketing A/B testing to content negotiation, they explore various challenges and solutions, including different URL/query parameters, edge logic, and client-side caching. Show Note ...  Show more

Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is the newest fully managed database service from AWS. Today, Nikki is joined by Zach Gardner, Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, to introduce this new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service. Learn why we built MemoryDB and dive into b ...  Show more