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Guest post: Patrick Galbraith

On Thursday, November 29th (tomorrow) Padraig O'Sullivan, a graduate student and Drizzle team member extraordinaire and amazing developer who has worked on a number of projects both for Drizzle and libmemcached-- and who also helped me get the memcached functions for Drizzle off the ground is giving a webinar on the C++ API to libmemcached.

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Recently, when Patrick Galbraith and I put together the next moxi release, we spent a bit of time getting the build clean on a number of platforms and with a number of compilers.  Continually building and testing on multiple platforms helps ensure the usefulness, quality and longevity of the code.

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This past week at Northscale has been a great week of productivity! Dustin released just this weekend SASL support for memcached so the statement that I put in my previous book about memcached having no authentication is now no longer valid!

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As a nerdy adolescent boy growing up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana I discovered that I really loved computers – and computer software in particular. Creating something from nothing and instantly seeing the results in all their black-and-green, 64 column-by-16 line, ASCII-character glory gave me a level of satisfaction very few other things did.

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Our intrepid NorthScalers have been doing some interesting work recently in memcached land... Last week, Dustin Sallings announced his memcached server implementation in Erlang, called EMemcached. 

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I'm pleased to announce the release of moxi 0.10.0, now available at http://labs.northscale.com/moxi/moxi-0.10.0.tar.gz or via Github

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It's just over a week ago now, but I had a good time and learned a few things from both the session and the discussions at the Los Angeles CloudCamp. I proposed, and ultimately lead a session on scaling data.  Actually, I proposed it as "Scaling Your Data: Both Before and After you Need To."

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There's a lot of buzz on the NoSQL, or anti-RDBMS, meme lately.  But, I don't like those category names. NoSQL? It's a backwards ref, instead of a forwards-looking connotation.

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Memcached and Java NIO master, Dustin Sallings, has put out a new release candidate of the world's best Java memcached client library, spymemcached.  The most exciting headliner here is the 2x performance improvement for bulk data loading into memcached

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As I've said in other venues, I believe a lot of value in the memcached ecosystem/community stems from well defined client APIs and a well defined over-the-network protocol.  The protocol just makes sense for a large class of things you may need from (as NorthScale's Dustin Sallings calls it) a sloppy LRU distributed hashmap.

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