This document discusses distributed caching and its benefits. It provides examples of how caching is used in browsers and for user login requests. It then discusses how companies like Facebook and Naver implement distributed caching at large scale using Memcached to improve performance and scalability. The key points are: 1) Caching stores data to serve future requests faster. It is commonly used in browsers, databases for login requests, and at companies like Facebook and Naver. 2) Facebook used Memcached to cache content and improved performance, serving over 1 billion users per day with 800 Memcached servers and 1,800 MySQL servers. 3) Naver uses a distributed file system with multiple cheap servers and disks instead of a single