Memcaching Plan of Attack

[Jason Tang]

On Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 06:38:36PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> On 10/04/2008, Jason Tang <jason at dragor.net> wrote:
> 
> >  So add abit of code to check if it exists in memcached if not hit db,
> >  and save it into memcached. Now am I going to have to find all refernces
> >  to those tables adn get them to expire that memcached entry?
> 
> I highly recommend not expiring data, it's way too much pain. Instead
> only cache data that you don't mind being out of date. For more:
> 
>   http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached

Thanks for your quick response!

I'm trying to work out if there is anything in the app I dont mind being
out of date. I'm struggling as its a webapp that people use for the
backoffice processes and so everything kind of needs to be up-to-date.

Thanks for the link to the slide. Its been useful!

Cheers
Jason
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