Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest - Pinterest Tech Stack

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• Scaling Cache Infrastructure at Pinterest Pinterest is a social bookmarking site where users collect and share photos of their favorite events, interests and hobbies.
• A distributed cache layer fronting many services and databases is one of our core storage systems that sits near the bottom of Pinterest’s infrastructure stack, responsible for absorbing the vast majority of backend traffic driven by this growth.
• Memcached is an attractive choice as a caching solution: Rich observability features are provided out of the box at no cost to the client application, providing detailed visibility into memcached traffic across all of our infrastructure.