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Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2014-10-10 · latest 2026-10-23

Mentions per year 6 mentions · busiest year 2014 (3)
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  1. …also great for scaling memcached. dragonfly, garnet, and pogocache are other alternatives too. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter
    comment by stock_toaster · 2026-02-05 · in It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
  2. …fork. When we had only memcached and no redis (we are using both with twemproxy), then we would try https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter from facebook. But it is specialized on memcached. If you come up with an alternative, please let me…
    comment by andygrunwald · 2017-03-29 · in Learn Redis the hard way: in production
  3. …their mcrouter tool [1] in production. It's a phenomenal swiss army knife for using memcached. [1] https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2014-11-04 · in Facebook's Top Open Data Problems
  4. Redis Cluster appears to be similar to using memcached with Facebook's mcrouter [1]. [1] https://github.com/facebook/mcrouter
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2014-10-10 · in Redis cluster, no longer vaporware