I wanted to like this article. But this: > Considering the first point we decided to give up external caches like Redis, Memcached or Couchbase mainly because

I wanted to like this article. But this: > Considering the first point we decided to give up external caches like Redis, Memcached or Couchbase mainly because of additional time needed on the network. Even mysql+innodb can easily handle 10k read/write queries against a simple pk table with "millions of entries" on desktop-grade hardware. If the article was "here's a fun experiment to make a cache server in Go", fair enough.