memcached "backends"

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Oct 12, 2006, at 15:06, Andy wrote:

> Maybe part of the problem is the way memcached is commonly  
> described, as
> Andy did above, with the words "a caching layer between my application
> and database".  The key word being "between".  It logically sits  
> between
> them, but physically, memcached is more of a peer of your reliable
> backing store, rather than a link between the frontend and the  
> backend.
> Your "frontend" goes to one source, if it's not there, it goes to the
> other.

Depends on your perspective; in some cases then the memcached use is  
implemented in the "model layer" ("in between") so your "front end  
code" (controllers / views) just magically gets the cached data when  
available and appropriate.


  - ask (who doesn't have a need or particular interest for other  
backends either - although the NDB backend could be neat and possibly  
useful)

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