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Check memcached "extstore" [1]. -- 1: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2024-04-15 · in Redis re-implemented with SQLite

…clients to operate on the same data without racing? (Here's a hint if you're still having trouble: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Commands#cas .)

comment by brickteacup · 2024-03-25 · in Best engineering interview question I've gotten

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Memcached – A Story of Caching

story by Alifatisk · 2024-03-21 · 0 comments

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Memcached 1.6.25 Release Notes

story by ksec · 2024-03-21 · 1 comment

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Memcached 1.6.24 Release Notes

story by ksec · 2024-03-19 · 0 comments

…if I only looked at the setting and not the usage. Its a neat variant to all of these ideas. [1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/97 [2] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/9723c0ea8ec1237b... [3]…

comment by NovaX · 2024-01-05 · in Sieve is simpler than LRU

memcached has recently gained the ability to spill to disk: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Extstore we recently implemented this to grow our caches to >50TB

comment by infomaniac · 2023-10-20 · in In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk

Interesting article here: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/08/23/how-we-scaled-grafana-cl... Utilizing: https://memcached.org/blog/nvm-caching/,https://github.com/m... TLDR; Grafana Cloud needed tons of Caching, and it was expensive. So they…

comment by CubsFan1060 · 2023-10-16 · in Ask HN: Why are there no open source NVMe-native key value stores in 2023?

…that is no longer the case or I remembered it wrong. Does Facebook still uses Memcache? [1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1621 [2] https://memcached.org/blog/proxy-intro/

comment by ksec · 2023-06-20 · in Scaling Memcache at Facebook (2021)

…but even with cheap memory it was easily doing 12-24GB RAM. Looking at it from another angle, https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes150 "Memcached was introduced in 2003" which is a bit after Socket 604 and looking at…

comment by chx · 2023-03-11 · in Acard ANS-9010B 5.25-inch SATA x1-to-6-slot DDR2 RAM Disk (Deactivated)

The memcached story https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/TutorialCachingS... is still an iconic piece of dev writing for me.

comment by ilrwbwrkhv · 2022-07-02 · in An engineer’s tips for writing documentation devs love

Memcached isn't even a "key/value" store (in database terms), it's a cache. https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ProgrammingFAQ#w...

comment by lazyjones · 2022-06-19 · in Redis vs. KeyDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Skytable

…infrastructure so anything I say here may not even be relevant. YMMV. First some self promotion: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Proxy memcached itself is shipping router/proxy software. Mcrouter is difficult to manage and…

comment by dormando · 2022-04-26 · in Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22

…perspective, would instead be noticing (or knowing) that memcached supports a CAS command ( https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/Commands#cas ) that would allow to implement equivalent functionality without changes in memcached, and…

comment by cafxx · 2022-04-18 · in The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten

…been working on an internal proxy which is nearing production-readiness for an early featureset: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/issues/827 - scriptable in lua, will have lots of useful features.

comment by dormando · 2021-10-11 · in Memcached vs. Redis – More Different Than You Would Expect

…until the service begins to accept() them when it becomes ready. Early socket opening in action. * https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/c460f0e13a35dcec... * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/unix-daemon-readiness-protocol-problems...

comment by JdeBP · 2020-06-03 · in Building binary deb packages: a practical guide

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MemcacheD: (Remote DOS attack) 0day buffer overflow vulnerability

story by LinuxBender · 2020-03-26 · 0 comments

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Responsible disclosure? Never heard of that

story by NablaSquaredG · 2020-03-23 · 1 comment

…like the second commit mentioning me was to fix a bug introduced by my first one, whoops.) [1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/tree/32f382b605b4565b...

comment by evmar · 2020-03-09 · in Please re-add original author to docs and license

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Memcached 1.6

story by nrr · 2020-03-09 · 46 comments

…https://github.com/LuaDist/luajit https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd https://github.com/memcached/memcached

comment by eindiran · 2020-02-14 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)

…feature. I hope other software can write documentation in satirical form like Memcache. [1] [1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/TutorialCachingS...

comment by dragonsh · 2019-09-19 · in Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts

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Memcached 1.5.18 can now recover its cache between restarts

story by archon810 · 2019-09-18 · 46 comments

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Basic Implementation of TLS for Memcached

story by conductor · 2019-04-17 · 0 comments

Shortly after Cloudflare's blog post, memcached pushed a commit that disabled UDP by default: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054b...

comment by arkadiyt · 2018-03-01 · in February 28th DDoS Incident Report

Here is the commit to disable UDP by default https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/dbb7a8af90054b... The default should also be changed to only listen on the loopback device.

comment by _RPM · 2018-03-01 · in February 28th DDoS Incident Report

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Memcached 1.5.6 Release Notes

story by voltagex_ · 2018-03-01 · 0 comments

…can get good results with much smaller implementations too. See my patch to memcached for example: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/275/files

comment by viraptor · 2017-10-05 · in Behind the Masq: Yet More DNS and DHCP Vulnerabilities

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Memcached – new LRU

story by JensRantil · 2017-04-13 · 0 comments

…complain that memcache is a bad system when you're simply using it against its intended design. [0] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ProgrammingFAQ#h...

comment by chimeracoder · 2017-01-27 · in Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number

…On a closed internal network this ends up just being added latency for new connections (if minor)." https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ProgrammingFAQ#h... "This [SASL authentication] does not provide encryption, but can provide…

comment by dahart · 2017-01-02 · in Why HTTPS for Everything?

The source repo contains a summary. https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/doc/threa...

comment by gbrown_ · 2016-12-31 · in Memcache internals (2011)

…table is used. This can be done while using an O(1) eviction policy that outperforms LRU [3]. [1] https://github.com/memcached/memcached/pull/97 [2] https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Design [3]…

comment by NovaX · 2015-09-26 · in Clarifications about Redis and Memcached

…is a good example of a daemon that shouldn't abort imho, many other daemons could happily abort. https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/memcached... . In other parts of the code, aborting was a better decision.…

comment by halayli · 2014-12-29 · in Robdns – A fast DNS server based on C10M principles

No idea how much you're trolling, but the single file: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/memcached... is more like 4000 lines of C (by guesstimating the amount of comments etc).

comment by e12e · 2014-11-05 · in Facebook's Top Open Data Problems

Thanks for the response. This is a very enjoyable read BTW: https://github.com/memcached/memcached/commit/d4b68a8eca39e6...

comment by swah · 2013-05-21 · in Memcached turns 10 years old today

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RTFM or urlslapping?

story by KarlKraft · 2010-11-05 · 4 comments

…supporting the memcached protocol? It might help with takeup as client libraries already exist. http://github.com/memcached/memcached/blob/master/doc/protoc...

comment by rlpb · 2010-10-29 · in OpenKeyval.org, a free data store/social experiment

The first commit to memcached on github is http://github.com/memcached/memcached/tree/32f382b605b4565bd... , which uses libevent. libevent has been around for a while...

comment by JoachimSchipper · 2010-06-23 · in Membase a new NoSQL