Simon Willison’s Weblog

plasticbag.org: My last day at Yahoo! Tom Coates on four years at Yahoo!

# 10:14 am / fireeagle, tom-coates, yahoo, recovered

ElasticSearch memcached module. Fascinating idea: the ElasticSearch search server provides an optional memcached protocol plugin for added performance which maps simple HTTP to memcached. GET is mapped to memcached get commands, POST is mapped to set commands. This means you can use any memcached client to communicate with the search server.

# 10:17 am / elasticsearch, http, memcached, protocol, recovered