Posts tagged memcache
We took down our blog for a long time after we moved from our website being a modified WordPress installation, to a custom built Ruby-on-Rails job. Sadly, we never got around to putting it back up.
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.
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.
Last week we answered the question, “Why should I use memcache?” Now we’ll get a little deeper into the usage of memcache by showing some example code, along with detailed explanations. This post will give you an idea about what it takes to write memcache code to help your app scale. We’ll use pseudocode to demonstrate.
Update (March 6th, 2018): In view of the widespread DDoS attacks involving memcached servers we would like to clarify that MemCachier is not vulnerable to these kinds of attacks as we use a custom built memcached server optimized for security and performance in a cloud environment. More info about the attack and how to prevent it can be found here.
Memcache is a technology that helps web apps and mobile app backends in two main ways: performance and scalability. We’ll discuss each of these in detail below, but first we’ll introduce memcache briefly.