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What are people’s experiences using Memcached?

29th October 2010

My answer to What are people’s experiences using Memcached? on Quora

That it’s so obviously a good idea (and works so well) that you’d be crazy not to use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s part of the default stack for any web application.

Posted 29th October 2010 at 2:03 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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