Developed by Danga Interactive to improve site performance on LiveJournal.com, Memcached‘s distributed architecture today supports the exponential scalability of social web applications like Twitter, ...

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However you slice it traditional caching requires performance trade-offs that some enterprise applications cannot afford. Find out for yourself why Memcached is a go-to solution for Java developers ...

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There are a lot of arguments today over just what defines elasticity in the cloud. Among some of the more devout adherents of cloud computing, the data structure underneath any real cloud application ...

I've been necessarily brief explaining both Memcached and LiveJournal's backend, so please e-mail me at brad@danga.com for any more information. Also, check out the ...

This week, memcached, a piece of software that prevents much of the Internet from melting down, turns 10 years old. Despite its age, memcached is still the go-to solution for many programmers and ...

Facebook is releasing mcrouter, its software for turning many cache servers around the world into one distributed system, as open source. The company announced the release on Monday at its @Scale ...