This might be a little verbose but I had to spend some time with the Rails source code to learn how the caching internals work. Writing things down aids my understanding and I figure that sharing some notes on how things work can’t hurt. Skip to the end if you’re in a hurry. Why It … Read more
Windows Server ports: memcached for Win32 Jellycan Code – memcached Memcached .NET Client ports: memcacheddotnet enyim.com Memcached Client BeIT
This is extremely easy to test: class MyCache def initialize @hash = {} end def []=(key, value) puts “Cache key ‘#{key}’ written” @hash[key] = value end def [](key) puts “Cache key ‘#{key}’ read” @hash[key] end end Now simply try the ||= syntax: cache = MyCache.new cache[“my key”] ||= “my value” # cache value was nil … Read more
1: YES. And I strongly recommend storing PHP sessions in Memcached. Here’s why: Memcached is great for storing small chunks of data that are frequently accessed by the database and filesystem. Memcached was designed specifically for sessions. It was originally the brainchild of the lead developer of livejournal.com and later used to also cache the … Read more
Why do you need to run memcached on windows? It’s an expensive affair in a production environment. If your code needs to run in a Windows environment get a windows memcached client and talk to a *nix based memcached machine. In a production environment running memcached on Server 2003 or 2008 would mean that you … Read more
This is a great question, something I have pondered over quite a bit. I will summarize my lessons learned: You can easily use Lucene/Solr in lieu of MongoDB for pretty much all situations, but not vice versa. Grant Ingersoll’s post sums it up here. MongoDB etc. seem to serve a purpose where there is no … Read more
North Scale labs have released a build of memcached 1.4.4 for Windows x64: http://blog.couchbase.com/memcached-windows-64-bit-pre-release-available http://labs.northscale.com/memcached-packages/ UPDATE: they have recently released Memcached Server – still FREE but enhanced distro with clustering, web-based admin/stats UI etc. (I’m not related to them in any way) Check it out at http://northscale.com/products/memcached.html and download at: http://www.northscale.com/download.php?a=d UPDATE 2: NorthScale Memcached … Read more
There are two extensions for memcached in PHP, “memcache” and “memcached”. It looks like you’re trying to use one (“memcache”), but the other is installed (“memcached”).
Memcached client library was just recently released as stable. It is being used by digg ( was developed for digg by Andrei Zmievski, now no longer with digg) and implements much more of the memcached protocol than the older memcache client. The most important features that memcached has are: Cas tokens. This made my life … Read more