Why is it being used in Eshopbox?

• Primary caching system

Audience

All Software backend and Mean Stack Engineers

Reading Material

Dos and Don’ts

Dos

• save data which is required very frequently.

• save data which is static for most of its life.

• Try to save data in groups.

Don’ts

• Avoid saving transactional data

• Avoid saving the same data with multiple key

• Avoid saving diff data with the same key

FAQ

1) How Memcached works?

See the following steps to understand how Memcached works:

• Memcached first tries to get the detail of the user, and the browser sends the request to the application.

• An application calls the Memcached for a particular user.

• If Result found in Memcached, Return the result from Memcached.

• If Result Not found in Memcached, the Application sends the request to the database and saves the result in Memcached.

• Each Memcached has one unique key.

• Get/Set the data work on behalf of the key.

• You can also delete one or more keys.

• You can also assign tags to one/more keys.