Study the following:

  1. Fitzpatrick, Brad. “Distributed caching with memcached.” Linux journal 2004, no. 124 (2004): 5. Available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.5555/1012889.1012894
  2. Nishtala, Rajesh, Hans Fugal, Steven Grimm, Marc Kwiatkowski, Herman Lee, Harry C. Li, Ryan McElroy et al. “Scaling memcache at facebook.” In 10th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 13), pp. 385-398. 2013. Available: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi13/nsdi13-final170_update.pdf
  3. Atchison, Lee., “Caching at Scale With Redis: Cloud Caching Techniques for Enterprise Applications,” Atchison Technology LLC, 2025. Available: https://redis.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/caching-at-scale-with-redis-updated-2021-12-04.pdf

Prepare slides for:

  • Motivation for Web Caching
  • Explain MEMCACHED
  • Explain Regis for caching
  • Compare and constrast MEMCACHED and Regis for caching
  • Facebook’s application of MEMCACHED: methodology and evaluation

Be prepared to present selected slides.