Simon Willison’s Weblog

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.

# 15th May 2010, 10:17 am / elasticsearch, http, memcached, protocol, recovered

Gearman protocol. Notes compiled by Eric Day, principle author of the C server implementation.

# 13th January 2009, 4:44 pm / eric-day, gearman, protocol