Blog — Momento

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September 29, 2022

Faster APIs, faster developers: API Gateway custom authorizers

How to add a custom authorizer and reduce API latencies with remote caching.

Ellery Addington-White

Ellery Addington-White

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September 27, 2022

Complicated pricing is not serverless

Momento is serverless all the way down to how you pay for it.

Ellery Addington-White

Ellery Addington-White

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September 20, 2022

Exceptions are bugs

Learn how Momento has adopted a philosophy about exceptions in a JVM language.

Kenny Chamberlin

Kenny Chamberlin

September 13, 2022

Shockingly simple: Tuning the Momento JavaScript cache client

We optimized our node.js gRPC client so you don't have to.

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September 9, 2022

Cut the caching clutter: understanding cache types

Clarify your caching options with this straightforward guide.

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September 6, 2022

Open Source Startup Podcast

Learn more about how Twitter's open source caching framework empowers Momento Serverless Cache.

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September 1, 2022

Simple. The way cloud pricing should be.

You don’t need to be lost in a pricing maze.

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August 31, 2022

Think before you cache

Caching has implications. Read this before you take the leap to ensure you're making the right caching decision.

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August 26, 2022

OpenTelemetry: Tips to navigate the sea of observability options

OpenTelemetry makes for a flexible and vendor-neutral observability pipeline, but there is more to the story.

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August 23, 2022

The dark art of multi-tenancy

Maximizing utilization while maintaining isolation feels like a magic trick. DynamoDB shows how to pull it off.

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August 17, 2022

Shockingly simple: Cache clients that do the hard work for you

Momento is hyper focused on an incredible developer experience—server side and client side.

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August 11, 2022

Oops, Momento ate 60% of my Lambda latencies!

Accelerate your app in minutes with a serverless cache.

Ellery Addington-White

Ellery Addington-White

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Stop settling for almost serverless

Holding your full stack to the serverless standard is possible right now.

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The biggest miss in your cache hit rate

Cache hit rate alone creates cognitive bias—and bad customer experience. Cache miss rate can help.

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Finally, a serverless cache that delivers on the promise of the cloud era

It's time to demand more from your cache.

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Making Pelikan fly on Arm: Diving deeper into our adventures with Tau T2A VMs

Discover how Momento tripled throughput on Google's Arm-based VMs with simple optimizations and zero code changes.

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4 tips for building high-performance systems

Keep these best practices in mind when performance is primary.

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Fascinating facts about facades at CBS Sports

Early investment pays off by enabling rapid modernization of legacy infrastructure with a serverless cache.

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Turbocharging Pelikan Cache on Google Cloud’s latest Arm-based T2A VMs

Momento exceeded throughput and latency goals for its serverless cache by 25% with Google's latest Arm-based T2A VMs.

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Real World Serverless Podcast

The only piece missing from going fully serverless was cache—until now.

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Serverless Cache: The missing piece to go fully serverless

Cloud architectures are progressing to serverless first designs and its time for caches to join the progression.

tail latencies

Why tail latencies matter

For highly scaled, distributed applications, it is critical to implement performance solutions that involve monitoring tail latency.

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Engineering Founders Podcast

How do founders know when it’s time to pivot? And how do you make sure your team is on board with the new direction?

memcached vs redis

February 14, 2022

Memcached vs. Redis: When scalability and reliability matter

For organizations looking to produce highly scalable, distributed software, there are two principal in-memory data storage solutions: Memcached and Redis.