In praise of memcached
Summary
The article argues that memcached is a better default cache choice than Redis for many operations teams. It contrasts Redis’s richer feature set and persistence options with memcached’s simpler, more stateless behavior. The piece emphasizes that memcached is easier to run, easier to fail over, and less likely to become an accidental database. It also notes that many performance problems blamed on caching actually come from slow queries or missing indexes.
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