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Nginx and Memcached, a 400% boost! Ilya Grigorik wrote up my current favourite nginx trick—you set nginx to check memcached for a cache entry matching the current URL on every hit, then invalidate your cache by pushing a new cache record straight in to memcached from your application server.

# 11th February 2008, 10:05 pm / memcached, nginx, performance, caching, ilyagrigorik