[KLUG Members] Meeting 2004-02-24 - memcached

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

memcached is a high-performance, distributed RAM key-value
cachingsystem. That buzzword soup means that if you have one or
morespare machines with some free RAM, you can implement anon-persistent
data store that's simple and _extremely_ fast (itnever blocks, and it
scales to almost any size). It's mostlyintended for taking some of the
load off heavily-read databases,but if you have a simple project where
different processes need toshare data, it works great as a "database
lite." It has clientAPIs in Perl, PHP, Python, and Java. memcached is
co-written by the main guy at LiveJournal.com, whereit helps webheads
serve 20 million pages a day, reducing thatsite's database load "to
almost nothing." We're using it onSlashdot too, and it helped get us
under 10 queries a page. And,it's simple to set up.
http://danga.com/memcached/ 


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Coming to three meetings qualifies you as a full member of KLUG, meaning 
that you can participate in the process of making formal decisions, including 
voting for officers.

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Our meeting place, THIS TUESDAY at 7 PM is:

The Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in beautiful downtown Kalamazoo.

Maps and directions can be found at
http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/maps.php3

All are welcome.

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The KLUG web site is:

    http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/