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Rockstar Memcaching

Posted by Tobias Lütke on Oct 28, 2008 01:38 AM

Community
Architecture,
Ruby
Topics
Performance & Scalability ,
Ruby on Rails ,
Data Access
Tags
RubyFringe ,
Rails ,
Memcache ,
Scalability ,
Memcached ,
Ruby on Rails
Summary
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Tobias Lütke talks about memcached, the widely used caching solution. Tobias explains how to use it and gives some practical tips on what not to do.

Bio
Tobias Lütke is a co-founder of jadedPixel, creator of Shopify – one of the largest Rails applications on the web. He has been part of the Ruby on Rails core team since its inception and has released numerous open source libraries such as Liquid Markup and ActiveMerchant. Tobi regularly writes about Ruby, future web technologies, and advertising on blog.leetsoft.com.

About the conference
RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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