Category: Joke

這篇是 StackOverflow 在講 cache 的文章，裡面不是什麼新東西，只是看到有趣的項目所以拿出來講：「How Stack Overflow Caches Apps for a Multi-Tenant Architecture」。

在講 cache 前通常都會說明各種儲存空間速度的差異，但裡面混了一個奇怪的東西：

• L1: 1.3ns
• L2: 3.92ns (3x slower)
• L3: 11.11ns (8.5x slower)
• DDR4 RAM: 100ns (77x slower)
• NVMe SSD: 120,000ns (92,307x slower)
• SATA/SAS SSD: 400,000ns (307,692x slower)
• Rotational HDD: 2–6ms (1,538,461x slower)
• Microsoft Live Login: 12 redirects and 5s (3,846,153,846x slower, approximately)

裡面混了一個不是 storage 的東西進去比較，你們是對 Microsoft 的帳號系統有多不爽 XDDD

另外他們列出了目前 Redis 的使用情況：

For the curious, some quick stats from last Tuesday (2019-07-30) This is across all instances on the primary boxes (because we split them up for organization, not performance…one instance could handle everything we do quite easily):

• Our Redis physical servers have 256GB of memory, but less than 96GB used.
• 1,586,553,473 commands processed per day (3,726,580,897 commands and 86,982 per second peak across all instances – due to replicas)
• Average of 2.01% CPU utilization (3.04% peak) for the entire server (< 1% even for the most active instance)
• 124,415,398 active keys (422,818,481 including replicas)
• Those numbers are across 308,065,226 HTTP hits (64,717,337 of which were question pages)

然後更長的版本可以在作者自己的 blog 上讀到，裡面講到的 cache invalidate (purge) 這部份有談到一些他們的作法：「Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition」。