Memcache: Show Me the Money

Memcache is a simple, powerful tool for adding caching to your server-side application processes. With APIs for just about every language in use today, you can put and retrieve chunks of data, pre-rendered html, sql result sets, and other things that are 'computationally expensive' to generate the first time. Memcache is in heavy use by sites such as facebook and twitter… come see how it can fit into your application's architecture.

In this talk we will show how memcache works, how you can use it, and discuss some of the perils and pitfalls when caching data for performance and scalability. We will see tools for analyzing your cache, testing invalidation, and discuss various cache expiration techniques.

About David Bock

David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.

In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.

David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.

In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.

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