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Blog posts from February 2010

The death of Memcached is greatly exaggerated

Posted by Mark Atwood on Feb 26, 2010 08:02 pm Permalink

There are many reactions going around to MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era, especially to the statement "it's clear the MySQL+memcached era is passing".

I think that really depends on what you mean by "era" and "passing".

The era of memcached being THE cutting edge technique for getting speed at scale may be "ending", but not because memcached is failing, but because there are additional (not replacement, additional) techniques now emerging.

"How do I add more memcached capacity without an outage?"

Posted by Mark Atwood on Feb 23, 2010 04:02 pm Permalink

Once someone starts using memcached, they tend to quickly find themselves in the state of: "my database servers overload and my site goes down if the memcached stops working". This isn't really surprising, quite often memcached was thrown into the stack because the database servers are melting under the load of the growing site.

But then they face an issue that is, as mathematicians and programmers like to call it, "interesting".

"How do I add more capacity without an outage?"

NoSQL Live coming to Boston

Posted by Mark Atwood on Feb 09, 2010 07:02 am Permalink

For those in the Boston area on March 11, here’s some exciting news: I’ll be a panelist at the first NoSQL Live event hosted by the good folks at 10gen. The main focus there will be moving past the basics and past the cheerleading, to understanding how non-relational data stores apply to practical applications.

Caching Services Scale Clouds

Posted by Joaquin Ruiz on Feb 01, 2010 11:02 am Permalink

Just a few years ago, when big sites like Facebook or Netflix were building out their delivery networks to customers, they would build data centers near major internet hubs. That meant setting up shop in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, and New York, as well as at international hubs like London, Madrid, and Tokyo. As long as the data center was close to major population centers, people could get service pretty rapidly.