Blog posts tagged with 'jumanji':
Minimizing cache stampedes
Date: 29 Jul 2010Tags: [ jumanji ] [ memcache ] [ PHP ] [ stampede ]
Caching is THE magic solution when it comes to optimizing your web applications. There are a lot of caching strategies and applications outthere. Some prefer MySQL query caching, others use memcache to cache either queries, objects, html or other data. However, one of the biggest problems that a lot of people tend to ignore with memcache or other caching daemons is dealing with stampedes. This phenomenon occurs when for instance the caching server is unavailable (because the instance is down, or due to network issues) or, most of the time, when the time to live of an object expires.When that occurs, all your processes will ask the cache for data, find that it’s not present and will try to generate it for you.