1. Facebook kisses DRAM goodbye, builds memcached for flash

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    Facebook kisses DRAM goodbye, builds memcached for flash

    Facebook has developed a new data cache called McDipper that's essentially memcached rewritten to run on flash memory instead of DRAM, thus saving money while still delivering higher performance than disk.

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