Memory-Management on Harvard Systems Grouphttps://systems.seas.harvard.edu/tags/memory-management/Recent content in Memory-Management on Harvard Systems GroupHugoenCopyright © 2026 The President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeFri, 01 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0400Pelikan Segcache: a memory-efficient and scalable in-memory key-value cache for small objectshttps://systems.seas.harvard.edu/blog/segcache/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:00:00 -0400https://systems.seas.harvard.edu/blog/segcache/<p>In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Twitter is building Pelikan&rsquo;s next generation of storage backend, which enables high memory efficiency, high throughput, and scalability for workloads that are primarily small objects and widely use TTL (time-to-live).</p>