memcached persistent load balancing with an f5 big-ip

[Jon Drukman]

Matthew Kent wrote:
> Thought I'd share something handy I cooked up based on examples:
> 
> If you have a f5 big-ip load balancer in your network (running some of
> the more recent software) you can use an iRule to distribute data to a
> pool of memcached servers based on a crc32 of the incoming key. The
> payload will be reexamined for each get/set request, allowing you to
> leave the connection open indefinitely.

that's actually quite bloody brilliant.  right now our biggest problem 
is that if we add/remove machines from our memcache pool, propagating 
the new configuration is quite time-consuming and error prone.

i wonder if i can do the same with our netscalers....

thanks for the idea.

-jsd-