I actually did some (simplistic) examples of this in a small presentation to ill...

robotmay on Aug 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfa...

I actually did some (simplistic) examples of this in a small presentation to illustrate the performance improvements of batching memcached requests, if anyone's interested: https://speakerdeck.com/robotmay/a-simple-introduction-to-ef... (slides 11 to 14)

jedberg on Aug 16, 2013 [–]

That's a better explanation than mine. :) Thanks for the link.