In praise of memcached (opens in new tab)

If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure, chances are that at some point in time the topic “we need a cache” comes up. You think for a moment and reach out for Redis, because you’re used to it, it’s fully featured, and it works! You remember it being a good, solid cache, and you wonder which new features recent releases have brought, and head to its homepage: