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by twotwotwo 4709 days ago
As others said, groupcache isn't useful for session storage. memcache was used for a lot of things other than caching, because it was a very versatile hammer and a lot of things looked like nails. groupcache is for when your data's immutable and bandwidth used for the most popular keys might exhaust a single memcache server's pipe.