What are the best books/tutorials to begin learning about memcached?
8th April 2013
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There isn’t really enough of memcached to justify a whole book—it’s a pretty straight-forward API.
It’s always interesting hearing about advanced usage patterns for it though. Again, these don’t necessarily justify a book but they are frequently presented at conferences.
Here’s one video that may be relevant: High Performance Caching with Rails—a session at GoRuCo 2012 by Matt Duncan
Here’s our full collection of 36 slides and video from talks about memcached: Conference coverage about Memcached on Lanyrd
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