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Terracota debiash conversation. Cache your sessions. Don't piss off your users. I hope you're all enjoying the 1.2.6 stable release of memcached.

Cache your sessions. Don't piss off your users

Don't want to hear no whining about it crashing! One of the most common questions in memcached land is the ever obnoxious "how do I put my sessions in memcached? ". The long standing answer is usually "you don't", or "carefully", but people often walk the dark path instead. Many libraries do this as well, although I've seen at least one which gets it. Peeping into memcached. Memcached is generally treated as a black box.

peeping into memcached

But what if you really need to know what’s in there? Not for runtime purposes, but for optimization and capacity planning?