Memcached

Brian "Krow" Aker's Idle Thoughts - The Death of Read Replication

http://krow.livejournal.com/590912.html interesting thoughts and notes about DBs and scalable systems

http://search.cpan.org/~kroki/Cache-Memcached-Fast-0.08/ another hight performance Perl client (c lib + perl bindings as perl xs) to memcached

http://highscalability.com/friends-sale-architecture-300-million-page-view-month-facebook-ror-app

http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-i-can-make-your-site-run-10-times-faster-1462.html nice summary for the above

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Cache-Memcached-Fast/ new fast memcached client for perl; with proper timeouts supports, etc.

http://www.slideshare.net/acme/scaling-with-memcached nice presentation on memcached

http://labs.cybozu.co.jp/blog/kazuhoatwork/2007/09/swifty-0_02.php perl memcached swifty library – bindings to memcached written in C