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Right.

Though, to argue with the article's title -- while a straightforward addition of more memcached nodes did not solve their capacity problem, the strategy of replicating nodes & load balancing read requests between them appears to be a solution to this particular capacity problem; so more machines = more capacity, so long as they are organized appropriately.



I'm not very familiar with memcached - is replication and load balancing built-in, or something facebook added on themselves?


Actually if you rewrite the equation you can see that:

   more capacity != more machines
   more capacity = more machines + load distribution strategy




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