I had a quick look at the source tree (I haven’t compiled it, just read the source – that’s what I do. I challenge any C/C++ compiler to keep up with my brain!) that’s got a tarball up on labs.mysql.com for the memcached interface to innodb. A few quick thoughts: Where’s the Bazaar tree on [...] [...more]
Getting Started with Memcached Distributed Memory Caching Wikipedia describes Memcached as a general-purpose distributed memory caching system, but what exactly does the term Memcached mean? Cache is memory used to store the most frequently used resources (e.g. browsers store every website visited during a session in cache), because accessing resources from a cache is faster [...] [...more]
Open Source Memcached Vendor NorthScale Gets New CEO and $10 Million The market for solutions based on the open source memcached distributed caching technology project is continuing to attract interest from investors and commercial vendors. Read more on Developer.com [...more]
So ever notice some old sites with domains showing up in your address bar that look something like www1.example.com or www2.example.com? This is usually because the site owners are trying to load balance, in a crude way by making you stick to one particular webserver. Usually the main reason for doing this is because of [...] [...more]
