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Agreed. Memcache is great until you get into the business of having to configure slabs. Most people just reach for redis at that point.
by gnz11 3mo ago
Agreed. Memcache is great until you get into the business of having to configure slabs. Most people just reach for redis at that point.
- functional_dev 3mo agoI always used memcached without knowing how it stores things.. never knew about the slab thing. It is more sophisticated than grab memory per item. This helped be to understand it better - https://vectree.io/c/memcached-internals-slab-allocation-lru-eviction-and-consistent-hashing https://vectree.io/c/memcached-internals-slab-allocation-lru...