Tuesday we announced the availability of the software only version of the Gear6 platform. Traditionally we’ve packed our software, which is an enhanced version of Memcached, with an industry standard computing platform. For those wondering why we chose to release just the software it boils down to nothing but customer choice. For various reasons (existing vendor relationships, hardware
Dwight Merriman (Presented by Dwight Merriman, CEO of 10gen, Chairman & Co-Founder of AlleyCorp and Co-Founder of DoubleClick) plans to talk about MongoDB.
One of the things I get to do for Gear6 is travel to conferences. I get to talk about Memcached, and other stuff I find exciting, such as nosql, gearman, drizzle, and cloud computing. And meet with other technical and business people who are excited about this stuff.
Last week I was in Atlanta Georgia, to participate in No:SQL(East).
In recent weeks, more details about Facebook's implementation and scale of use of Memcached have been astounding the tech community. First, HighScalability.com reported on a presentation at UC San Diego given by Facebook's VP of Technology earlier this month, noting that:
