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Aug 2022
50m 29s

Memcached Architecture | The Backend Eng...

Hussein Nasser
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Memcached is an in memory cache with one major feature be a transient cache. Memcached has a very simple design. It was originally designed to help with database load by storing the query result in memory to avoid further querying the database. By default it has no authentication, a simple text protocols, servers don’t talk to each other. This video discuss ... Show More
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