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Memcached Resources

Background
Brad Fitzpatrick’s 2004 LinuxJournal article on Memcached:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7451

The official Memcached site:
http://www.danga.com/memcached/

Code
Server:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/
Client APIs:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Clients

Memcached start page and wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/Start

Libmemcached
A C and C++ client library to the memcached server. It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe, and provide full access to server side method:
http://tangent.org/552/libmemcached.html

MySQL Documentation
Using Memcached:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ha-memcached-using.html
Memcached Clients:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/ha-memcached-interfaces.html

Consistent Hashing
The Original Paper on Web Caching with Consistent Hashing:
http://www8.org/w8-papers/2a-webserver/caching/paper2.html
Libketama from the folks at LastFM:
http://www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/rz_libketama_-_a_consisten...