Memcached is a powerful open source distributed memory caching system and has become the de-facto standard for the web caching tier. 17 of the top 20 most trafficked sites - including Facebook, Twi...
This presentation from Lustratus REPAMA presents a market segmentation model/taxonomy for cloud computing. It includes the infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a servi...
Who's online, how they're using the Web, and what they're accessing have changed significantly over the last few years. All these factors are straining websites, and their outdated architectures. T...
Dynamic consumer content on the Web is straining the LAMP stack and demands a new caching tier for maximum scale. Take a hit of Memcached and the sky's the scalability limit, but be careful not to ...
Typical Memcached deployments do not comprehensively address web site requirements for high availability. Depending on your web architecture, a single failure can disable your web caches. This pres...
The memcached Functions for MySQL are User Defined Functions (UDFs) that give you the power to interact with both MySQL and memcached in one place, giving you the ability to have read-through or wr...
This is a presentation given on April 14, 2009 to a select group of current memcached users. It includes survey results of how the dynamic web has given rise to the distributed caching tier, descri...
This is a presentation on database sharding. Sharding is a technique used for horizontal scaling of databases we are using at Netlog. If you're interested in high performance, scalability, MySQL, p...
a consistent hash function is one which changes minimally as the range of the function changes. Through the development of good consistent
hash functions, we are able to develop caching protocols...