Any other uses of memcached?

[Chris Ochs]

We started using memcached in our development branch a couple of months ago,
due to go into production next month when we release a new version of our
service.   For the most part we are using it as a database cache for the
various address/fraud checks that our system does during a transaction
(where speed is critical), and for caching static configuration data.

Chris Ochs
Payment Online Inc



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Fitzpatrick" <brad@danga.com>
To: "Jamie McCarthy" <jamie@mccarthy.vg>
Cc: <memcached@lists.danga.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Any other uses of memcached?


> I'm giving a few talks on memcached and writing an article for
> LinuxJournal coming up here, so I too would be interested in who's using
> it, and how....
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Jamie McCarthy wrote:
>
> > I'm talking about memcached to my local LUG next week.  I wondered
> > if anyone had any ideas for less-than-obvious uses for it.
> >
> > Its most obvious use is caching DB query results.
> >
> > A second use that I can think of is storing data for large-scale
> > numerical processing, perhaps scientific modelling, where many CPUs
> > have to work together on gigabytes of data, and the results of the
> > number-crunching are small enough to be written to disk periodically
> > (so if the power goes out, the most you lose is a few hours' work).
> >
> > Any other ideas?
> > --
> >   Jamie McCarthy
> >  http://mccarthy.vg/
> >   jamie@mccarthy.vg
> >
> >
>