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What are people’s experiences using Memcached?

29th October 2010

My answer to What are people’s experiences using Memcached? on Quora

That it’s so obviously a good idea (and works so well) that you’d be crazy not to use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s part of the default stack for any web application.

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