The Power of the Proxy: Request Routing Memcached By @LMacVittie | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps

There are three things today that an application needs to survive in today’s demanding world: scale, security, and performance. It is for both reasons of scale and performance that memcached has become such a popular solution in modern application architectures. It aids in scalability by offloading database requests, which naturally increases the capacity of the database to answer queries not answerable by memcached. It improves performance, of course, by providing very fast responses to queries that in turn, are able to be returned to the user with greater alacrity.

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