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by psadri 39 days ago
The comment about memcached being ephemeral is orthogonal to whether people will use it as if it persistent. If the cache appears to get hit 99.9% of the time and is always there, sooner or later people will write code that relies on that behavior.

Maybe the client libraries can help by returning nulls 10% of time, in dev mode?