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Developed by Danga Interactive to improve site performance on LiveJournal.com, Memcached‘s distributed architecture today supports the exponential scalability of social web applications like Twitter, ...

I've been necessarily brief explaining both Memcached and LiveJournal's backend, so please e-mail me at [email protected] for any more information. Also, check out the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Last month, we talked about memcached, a distributed caching system that is in widespread use among Web sites. The reason for memcached's popularity is its simplicity. With a minimum of overhead and ...

If you cannot satisfy the performance with one server node when concurrent users are increasing dramatically, or you cannot scale your Java applications with one JVM instance due to the limitation of ...