[HN Gopher] Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches
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Pelikan, Twitter's framework for building caches
Author : MrBuddyCasino
Score : 60 points
Date : 2022-10-01 20:52 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| extrememacaroni wrote:
| For a moment I thought this would be about stationery.
| thinkingfish wrote:
| I'm a big fan of their fountain pens and the piston filling
| mechanism.
| thinkingfish wrote:
| Project creator here, didn't expect to see the link on HN :P
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| Here's the latest code architecture diagram:
| https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pelikan-io/pelikan-io.gith...
|
| And a slightly outdated but mostly accurate description of our
| motivation. https://www.pelikan.io/2019/why-pelikan.html
|
| #AMA We've done a few research-y and go-to-production projects in
| the last few years.
| skyde wrote:
| I have a question for someone with your expertise. Why not use
| the CLOCK-Pro cache eviction algorithm in a system like this?
| lbhdc wrote:
| This is really interesting. Thanks for open sourcing it!
| ithkuil wrote:
| What is momento?
| thinkingfish wrote:
| It's a SaaS startup offering managed cache (like Elastic
| Cache). They have their own protocol but uses Pelikan-
| segcache as one of their backends.
| MikeYasnev007 wrote:
| nequo wrote:
| I like this bird pun. Another project at Twitter with a bird pun
| for a name: Summingbird.
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| https://github.com/twitter/summingbird
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