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Re:How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple ... by fleaflicker on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @09:54PM (#282263)
There's another easier way built into memcached:

When you issue a delete you can specify "the amount of time the client wishes the server to refuse 'add' and 'replace' commands"

Maybe they couldn't afford to increase the read load so much but this seems easier than rewriting mysql's replication engine.

Re:How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple ... by ashu on Thursday August 21, 2008 @03:38AM (#282454)
That would not be guaranteed to be correct since you don't know the precise time required for the dbs to be consistent.
Re:How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple ... by dwwatk01 on Thursday August 21, 2008 @09:45AM (#282658)
memcached != memcache