MemCachier Blog
Announcements, New Features, and How Tos
We are excited to announce
that MemCachier will be taking part in a webinar put on by our friends
at Joyent. The webinar will be a panel based discussion on the topic
of Do-It-Yourself Vs. as-a-Service model and will take place next
Wednesday the 12th of December at 10am. We hope the discussion of
the trade-offs and benefits will be rewarding to all
participants. Questions will be from audience members, so if you’ve
ever wanted to chat with us (David will be on deck), then this is your
chance!
Some of our customers in Amazon’s us-east-1 region (Virginia) noticed degraded performance and partial outages starting Friday, 11/16 through Sunday, 11/18, and again on Wednesday, 11/21. We want to take this opportunity to explain what happened.
We made a slight change to the analytics dashboard to show 30 days of usage data. Previously we were only showing 7 days. Take a look at your dashboard and tell us what you think.
Despite being the go-to scaling solution for most production websites,
Memcache often isn’t used to its full potential. Most developers only
know about the get, set, and delete operations. However,
Memcache has a broader set of operations that help developers build
more advanced apps with less code and even further improved
performance.
We’re excited to announce that MemCachier is now available in EC2, AppFog, dotCloud, and CloudBees. Now developers can speed up page loads and improve their app’s scalability with MemCachier’s memcache solution.
Today we’re announcing the general availability of our analytics dashboard – a simple tool to give you more insight into how you’re using memcache.
This dashboard is the start of what will eventually become the most advanced usage analysis tool available. The current feature list includes:
- Current usage: bytes and number of objects
- Usage history, in bytes
- Cache flush button
Moving forward we plan to provide much more in-depth usage statistics. We’re already working on the next version – let us know if you have feature requests you’d like us to consider.
2pm rolls around and you’re already tired of sitting all day. So you slouch over your computer for the rest of the day. By the evening you’re exhausted, your back and wrists are sore, and you’re dreading doing it again tomorrow. Sound familiar?
We got tired of sitting so we built $22 standing desks, constructed from IKEA parts and wood screws.
Update (August 27th, 2018): An article explaining how to find the ideal cache size can be found here.
A larger memcache can sometimes enable better performance and scalability. But not always. Some of our customers have benefited from a larger cache, while others haven’t. In this post we’ll explain how to determine if you need a larger cache and how a larger cache improves performance. This post assumes you already have a basic knowledge of memcache – refer to our Memcache user guide if you don’t.