Welcome to the memcached wiki

The official memcached site is at http://www.danga.com/memcached/.

• Hackathon - Proposed dates and topics on the proposed hackathons are now posted. Also, find notes from previous hackathons.

• Clients - List of Client APIs in various languages

• Windows - memcached on Windows

Proposals

• Tag Support - Collections and thoughts from the ML about how to do tags in memcached
• Cross Platform Serialisation Support - Collections and thoughts from the ML about how to provide a mechanism for cross-platform serialisation support

FAQ

• Memcached FAQ - We're starting a FAQ here
• Memcached Client FAQ - Questions and Answers specific to client authors and cross-compat client behavior.
• Sessions - How to store sessions in memcached
• This is a Story of Caching - A tutorial in story form that may help you understand how to use memcached.

Links

• Subversion repository
• Mailing list
• WikiPedia Entry
• PECL Installation
• Memcachedb - A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent, based on memcached and tugela.

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Articles

• LinuxJournal article by Brad (2004)
• Slideshare Presentation - LiveJournal's Backend A History of Scaling
• APC or Memcached Article - MySQL Performance Blog (2006)
• Scaling with memcached (slides)
• http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/14/memcached-and-mysql-tutorial

IRC

• irc.freenode.net #memcached

Wiki

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