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, ...

One possible correlation to the rise of distributed cache systems is the high profile use of Memcached by organizations like Facebook, and Twitter. While Memcached is a simple, focused and fast cache ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've been seeing a rise of ever bigger Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for years now. But, now a new attack method, Memcrashed, can blast your site with over a terabyte of traffic. Good ...