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by no-s 2178 days ago
memcached + rdbms is really super cheap and effective. Properly architected it can be tolerant of all sorts of latency/failure/CAP issues, up to some limits of course.

there was a variant library that allowed you to replace memcached servers on the fly without worrying about the size of the cluster list or having to recache.