Possible use for memcache?

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Mon Nov 28 16:55:55 PST 2005


On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, mike wrote:

> On 11/28/05, David Phillips <david at acz.org> wrote:
> > The memcached protocol only specifies how a single client talks to a
> > single server.  Things like hashing, load balancing and fail over are
> > up to the client.
>
> Sorry, I meant that this issue seems to be resolved by simply defining
> multiple memcached instances in the client... and that the memcached
> APIs (client and server) seem to be able to handle that appropriately
> (from what I've seen)

Then you haven't seen all the failure cases.  :-)

- Brad


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