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Memcached

Brad Fitzpatrick · 2003

Memcached is a distributed in-memory key-value store designed to reduce load on databases in dynamic web applications. It delivers speed by bypassing disk and network I/O—but requires manual cache management, offers no consistency guarantees, and assumes trust within the network. It works because it is minimal, not because it is clever.