File under “beautiful hack” memcached, a self-organizing distributed in-memory object cache.
December 8th, 2003
File under “beautiful hack”
memcached, a
self-organizing distributed in-memory object cache. [via muxway]
Danga Interactive developed memcached to enhance the speed of LiveJournal.com,
a site which was already doing 20 million+ dynamic page views per day
for 1 million users with a bunch of webservers and a bunch of database
servers. memcached dropped the database load to
almost nothing, yielding faster page load times for users, better
resource utilization, and faster access to the databases on a memcache
miss.