Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
One of the services my team runs in AWS makes good use of Memcached (via the ElastiCache product). I say "good" use as we manage to achieve a hit rate of something like 98% most of the time, although now I realise that it comes at a significant cost - when this cache is removed, it takes a significant toll on the application. Unlike other applications that traditionally cache the results of MySQL…