Thread by @Shivansh_2407

While cache accounts for ~3% of @Twitter's architecture, but it's really critical for them. Here's how they've been managing it. 🤯🤯

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Despite the availability of Twemcache and Redis, both highly popular and seemingly mature projects, existing solutions don’t really fully answer the cache requirements and challenges Twitter faces🤯🤯

Pelikan addresses most of these caching issues by treating cache servers as a framework, abstracting common functionalities as modules, and implementing features against common interfaces.

Written in Rust and C👨‍💻

Pelikan provides high-throughput and low-latency caching solutions, designed for large scale deployments.

Thanks to @thinkingfish for the beautiful article explaining about Pelikan and the drawbacks of their existing architecture.

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