Memcached is an open-source distributed caching system that improves website performance by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an application must access a backend data store. It works by storing objects in memory to speed up access and reduce load on databases. Memcached is simple to implement, scalable, and helps websites run faster by caching frequently accessed data in memory rather than accessing the database on every request. The presentation provides an overview of memcached, how to implement it, best practices, and common use cases.
moxi is a memcached proxy with several features which can help keep the memcached contract whole in complicated environments. It also brings several optimizations to memcached deployments, without requiring any changes to the application software using memcached. For more, visit: http://labs.northscale.com/moxi/
Implementing High Availability Caching with MemcachedGear6
Typical Memcached deployments do not comprehensively address web site requirements for high availability. Depending on your web architecture, a single failure can disable your web caches. This presentation offers real world solutions to solving <a>high availability</a> challenges common to large, dynamic websites with Memcached, specifically:
* Options and benefits for deploying high availability services within Memcached
* How companies are approaching high availability
* Considerations on building and deploying high availability
o Recommendations for a typical Memcached environment
o Open source tools available
o High level costs for deployment
Today's high-traffic web sites must implement performance-boosting measures that reduce data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. Coupling memcached with the alternative PHP cache (APC) can greatly improve performance by reducing data processing time. In this talk, Ben Ramsey covers memcached and the pecl/memcached and pecl/apc extensions for PHP, exploring caching strategies, a variety of configuration options to fine-tune your caching solution, and discusses when it may be appropriate to use memcached vs. APC to cache objects or data.
moxi is a memcached proxy with several features which can help keep the memcached contract whole in complicated environments. It also brings several optimizations to memcached deployments, without requiring any changes to the application software using memcached. For more, visit: http://labs.northscale.com/moxi/
Implementing High Availability Caching with MemcachedGear6
Typical Memcached deployments do not comprehensively address web site requirements for high availability. Depending on your web architecture, a single failure can disable your web caches. This presentation offers real world solutions to solving <a>high availability</a> challenges common to large, dynamic websites with Memcached, specifically:
* Options and benefits for deploying high availability services within Memcached
* How companies are approaching high availability
* Considerations on building and deploying high availability
o Recommendations for a typical Memcached environment
o Open source tools available
o High level costs for deployment
Today's high-traffic web sites must implement performance-boosting measures that reduce data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. Coupling memcached with the alternative PHP cache (APC) can greatly improve performance by reducing data processing time. In this talk, Ben Ramsey covers memcached and the pecl/memcached and pecl/apc extensions for PHP, exploring caching strategies, a variety of configuration options to fine-tune your caching solution, and discusses when it may be appropriate to use memcached vs. APC to cache objects or data.
Introduction to memcached, a caching service designed for optimizing performance and scaling in the web stack, seen from perspective of MySQL/PHP users. Given for 2nd year students of professional bachelor in ICT at Kaho St. Lieven, Gent.
October 14 2009 New York Web Performance Group Session.
Rusty Conover is talking about his experience at InfoGears building Content Delivery Network (CDN) on top of Amazon EC2
Memcache is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Using advanced options in MariaDB Connector/JMariaDB plc
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Memcached has become the de facto standard for caching web applications. But, many users jump in feet first without understanding what it does or perhaps more importantly what it does not do. Once you understand memcached, you may come to realize that it is what it does not do that makes it so good.
Memcached is a distributed memory based caching system. But, what does that mean for you? This session will cover the basics of memcached. What are all the components needed? Where is your data cached? What happens when there is a system failure? Is my data stored in more than one place? How do I know what is in my cache? All these questions and more will be answered.
A brief overview of caching mechanisms in a web application. Taking a look at the different layers of caching and how to utilize them in a PHP code base. We also compare Redis and MemCached discussing their advantages and disadvantages.
Most mid-sized Django websites thrive by relying on memcached. Though what happens when basic memcached is not enough? And how can one identify when the caching architecture is becoming a bottleneck? We'll cover the problems we've encountered and solutions we've put in place.
Introduction to memcached, a caching service designed for optimizing performance and scaling in the web stack, seen from perspective of MySQL/PHP users. Given for 2nd year students of professional bachelor in ICT at Kaho St. Lieven, Gent.
October 14 2009 New York Web Performance Group Session.
Rusty Conover is talking about his experience at InfoGears building Content Delivery Network (CDN) on top of Amazon EC2
Memcache is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Using advanced options in MariaDB Connector/JMariaDB plc
MariaDB Connector/J is our widely used Type 4 JDBC driver for Java. This session covers the basics of getting started with Java and MariaDB, and moves quickly to more advanced topics, including connection pooling, automatic failover and debugging. Diego Dupin also includes an overview of popular object/relational mapping (ORM) and programming frameworks for Java. Even if you have been using the MariaDB Connector/J for years, come to this session to learn about the latest release, see where the connector is going and discover the latest tips and tricks.
Memcached: What is it and what does it do?Brian Moon
Memcached has become the de facto standard for caching web applications. But, many users jump in feet first without understanding what it does or perhaps more importantly what it does not do. Once you understand memcached, you may come to realize that it is what it does not do that makes it so good.
Memcached is a distributed memory based caching system. But, what does that mean for you? This session will cover the basics of memcached. What are all the components needed? Where is your data cached? What happens when there is a system failure? Is my data stored in more than one place? How do I know what is in my cache? All these questions and more will be answered.
A brief overview of caching mechanisms in a web application. Taking a look at the different layers of caching and how to utilize them in a PHP code base. We also compare Redis and MemCached discussing their advantages and disadvantages.
Most mid-sized Django websites thrive by relying on memcached. Though what happens when basic memcached is not enough? And how can one identify when the caching architecture is becoming a bottleneck? We'll cover the problems we've encountered and solutions we've put in place.
SmugMug: From MySQL to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT204) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
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Posterous recently deployed Riak to serve as their content cache. In this talk, Julio Capote will cover why the engineering team chose Riak for the use case. He'll also share some details on the old post cache and its problems, what solutions they evaluated, and how they settled on Riak.
Slides from the second meeting of the Toronto High Scalability Meetup @ http://www.meetup.com/toronto-high-scalability/
-Basics of High Scalability and High Availability
-Using a CDN to Achieve 99% Offload
-Caching at the Code Layer
OSDC 2013 | Introduction into Chef by Andy HawkinsNETWAYS
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Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
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- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
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We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
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Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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17. many client libraries
• might be TOO many
• the hit list...
• Java ==> spymemcached
• C ==> libmemcached
• Python, Ruby, etc ==>
• libmemcached wrappers
61. answer 1
• right on your web servers
• a great place to start, if you have extra
memory
62. servers
web app web app web app web app
memcached memcached memcached, memcached
RDBMS
63. add up your memory
usage!
• having memcached server swap == bad!
64. answer 2
• run memcached right on your database
server?
• WRONG!
65. answer 3
• run memcached on separate dedicated
memcached servers
• congratulations!
• you either have enough money
• or enough traffic that it matters
93. solution
• save sessions to memcached
• the first time, also save to RDBMS
• ideally, asynchronously
• on cache miss, restore from RDBMS
94. solution
• save sessions to memcached
• the first time, also save to RDBMS
• ideally, asynchronously
• on cache miss, restore from RDBMS
95. in the background...
• have a job querying the RDBMS
• cron job?
• the job queries for “old” looking session
records in the sessions table
• refresh old session records from
memcached
108. multigets
• they are your friend
• memcached is fast, but...
• imagine 1ms for a get request
• 200 serial gets ==> 200ms
109. a resultset loop
foreach product in resultset
c = memcached.get(product.category_id)
do something with c
110. 2 loops
for product in resultset
multiget_request.append(product.category_id)
multiget_response = memcachedClient.multiget(
multiget_request)
for c in multiget_response
do something with c