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Archive of entries posted on July 2010

Distributed Locking using Memcache

Memcache is the de-facto distributed caching server used to scale many web2.0 sites today. With the requirement to support a very large number of users as sites grow, memcache aids scalability by effe…

Facebook Engineer On The Intricacies of Memcache & PHP

The Facebook website is the second most popular website in the world, according to the Alexa Internet ranking site. As a top website, Facebook is constructed from a diverse series of Memcache and PHP …