Simon Willison’s Weblog

Using Memcache with Google App Engine. Brad Fitzpatrick’s 20% time project. 28th May 2008, 11:11 pm

NginxMemcachedModule. nginx can be set up to directly serve a URL from memcache if the corresponding cache key is set, and fall back to a backend application server otherwise. Application servers can then write directly to memcache when content needs to be cached or goes stale. 15th December 2007, 1:59 am

Clever Caching. Instead of invalidating your cache directly, bump a version number on your model (blog entry or whatever) and use that as part of the cache key. This also gives you dynamic etags for free. 5th July 2007, 12:56 am

libketama (via) A consistent hashing algorithm for memcache clients, from the team at last.fm. 20th April 2007, 6:50 am