On Saturday 02 June 2007 10:02:08 Simon Willison wrote: > Memcached is pretty much the industry standard now for caching on high > traffic sites, at least those that use the LAMP stack. Flickr and > Wikipedia both use it, but the highest traffic install at the moment > is probably Facebook who are running 200+ memcache servers each with > 16GB of RAM. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.cache.memcached/3212
That's really good to know. Thanks, Simon. > If your site is almost all reads memcache should work like a dream. > Django's caching framework (which can use memcache on the backend) > should cover you nicely. Excellent. It looks quite straightforward to integrate memcached into a Django project (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/#memcached). I now have a better idea of how to spec out this site. > If you haven't read it already, I'd strongly suggest getting a copy of > Cal Henderson's book "Building Scalable Websites", which covers a ton > of lessons he learnt scaling Flickr. Best book on the subject I've > seen. I haven't read it yet, but I most definitely will! It seems this won't be the last large-scale Django site we do - especially if I get all of this sorted out and the current project is a success. :) The client would dearly love to break its dependence on Akami caching, and it now looks like we may be able to do so. Thanks everyone for your help in this. Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
