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This lecture is about building systems at scale. The associated 2013 paper from Facebook doesn't present any new ideas per se, but I found it interesting to see how some ideas this course has covered so far on replication, partitioning and consistency play out in such a large scale system. The paper is about how Facebook uses memcached as a building block for a distributed key-value store. Memcached is an in-memory data store used for caching. Many applications today benefit from its quick respo...