Archive for 'Memcached' Category

Datacenter Challenges in Selecting Hardware, Selecting Software, Creating Balanced Systems

By jbusch - Last updated: Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Datacenter Challenges in Selecting Hardware, Selecting Software,
and Creating Balanced Systems
Dr. John R Busch, CTO and Founder
Datacenter quality-of-service and total cost of ownership have a major impact on the success of any enterprise. Solution architects and datacenter managers seek architectures and deployments that provide excellent performance scalability and high service availability to effectively meet rising service [...]

Schooner Labs : Research Findings

By jbusch - Last updated: Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Sharing our Industry Observations and our Research Results
Dr. John R Busch, CTO and Founder
Our research and engineering teams at Schooner have deeply studied datacenter challenges and opportunities, and have done extensive modeling and measurement of emerging technologies. We will share our findings in this blog. We share our observations on technology trends and our research, [...]

Schooner will be continuing Greg Whalin’s work on the Memcached Whalin client

By admin - Last updated: Monday, April 12, 2010

We are pleased to announce that Schooner will be continuing Greg Whalin’s work on the Memcached Whalin client. There are many users of the Whalin client in need of bug fixes, support and the latest features. Schooner plans on releasing updates for these users.
There are two major features going upstream, namely binary protocol and UDP [...]

Schooner just released an extended version of memslap (version 0.36) to the open source community

By admin - Last updated: Saturday, March 13, 2010

In this blog entry I’d like to describe the motivation behind the extensions and how we use them at Schooner. http://tangent.org
When we started developing the Schooner version of memcached we found that there was no readily available driver suitable for performance testing. In particular, no driver supported controlling the miss rate in the memcache. This [...]