Perlbal as an accelerator for dynamic-but-cachable content

[komtanoo.pinpimai at livetext.com]

I'm eager to see, I was naively writting a plugin to lookup MogileFS key
without passing to modperl, but it didn't work, because perlbal needs
something asynchronous. Since then, I have been wondering how to do it
correctly.

-kem

On Mon, October 9, 2006 10:26 pm, Chris Hondl wrote:
> We've been using memcached directly from our Perlbal instances for
> caching. We wrote a plugin to Perlbal that takes inbound URLs, does a
> tracker lookup to find a storage node, and then pulls the image from that
> node.  We used an async memached client library we had written for an
> earlier project.  We cache both lookups against our Mogile trackers and
> the images pulled from our Mogile storage nodes.  We run a memcached
> instance and a Perlbal instance on each front end machine.    We haven't
> posted this code any where, but we could publish if anyone is interested.
>
> Chris
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> On 10/9/06, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 9, 2006, at 18:07, Jake wrote:
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>>> What is LiveJournal (or others) doing to serve up these
>>> dynamic-but-cachable requests efficiently? Are they just optimizing
>>> dynamic generation (memcached, etc) so it doesn't hurt so bad, and
>>> buying additional servers?
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>> Many of us have sites with pages that can be mostly, but not entirely
>> cached.   Or sometimes the page can be entirely cached, but you need to
>> run a bit of logic to figure out which variant of the page is to be
>> served (etc etc).   Doing it in the backend is much easier to scale than
>> if you start adding too many smarts to perlbal.
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>> - ask
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