Comments on: How MemCachier went from a favor for a friend to cloud ubiquity

By: Harish Ganesan

Harish Ganesan — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:14:31 +0000

Good luck memcachier. I have published a blog on Caching Architectures using Amazon ElastiCache/Memcached for the cloud community. Can be found at :
http://harish11g.blogspot.in/2012/11/amazon-elasticache-memcached-ec2.html

By: tbaxter denney

tbaxter denney — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:58:57 +0000

Derrick, thanks for the mention. We recently released a whitepaper talking about common Memcached challenges and how organizations are using Couchbase Server as a replacement. Check it out here: http://info.couchbase.com/memcachedtier.html

Baxter, Couchbase

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:34:49 +0000

That’s a really good point. It would seem that replication and other capabilities will have to follow suit at some point as more people build geographically distributed apps. Not so much a concern on PaaS offerings now, but certainly on EC2.

By: David Mytton

David Mytton — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:19:34 +0000

I always find caching as a service products interesting because they are always limited by where they run. The point of a cache is to make things faster but that’s never going to be the case if you have to do a remote call over the internet to the cache hosted elsewhere. This makes it important for the service to be hosted in the same data centre/network as where your own instances are.

So it makes sense to be on Amazon and other PaaS platforms to achieve this goal. I wonder how EC2 availability zone architecture affects latency given that zones are not consistent across accounts.

By: duderino

duderino — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:36:44 +0000

ouch! right in the headline!

By: dude

dude — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:11:14 +0000

ubiquity, not ubquity