M MEMCACHED Home About Downloads Blog Mailing_List Wiki Bugs What is Memcached? Supported by Download Memcached Free open source, high-performance distributed NETFLIX The latest stable memcached release memory object caching system, generic in nature , but V1.6.7 intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load_ packet release notes (2020-9-4) Memcached an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls; API calls, or page rendering: [Lgz Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and Source and Qevelopment solves many problems facing large data caches Its API is available for most popular languages_ Quick Example Cache Results Play with telnet function get foo(foo_id) telnet localhost 11211 foo memcached ~get ( "foo: foo_id) Trying 127 0.1 return foo defined foo Connected localhost Escape character foo fetch foo_ from_database(foo_id) foo memcached_set ( " foo: foo_ VALUE foo return foo end END get foo }