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Happily, I've recently found an intersection of tasks that I can roll into a single, quick, unified project.  Here's a small subset of my to-do list...
 
- build some automated Membase/Moxi cluster testing, with a large number of nodes
- show how folks can use TAP streams in Membase for great good
- learn more about that other new hot thing, nodejs
- blog more
 

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Recently, Attila Kiskó, the author of the best .NET memcached client, the Enyim .NET memcached client, has been enhancing his client library to speak directly to membase data nodes.  Membase already supports all existing memcached client libraries and memcached protocols via a high-performance proxy, but there's a "direct path" that client libraries can use for ever-increased performance.  Along the way, we ended up with a quick guide on the membase.org wiki on how to create your own native or "smart" membase client lib

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Lots of great enhancements have gone into membase and memcached recently, and I'm especially excited with the new vbucket capability -- see: http://dustin.github.com/2010/06/29/memcached-vbuckets.html.  Say hello to the ability to explicitly migrate and replicate keys/values between servers, without downtime, while still keeping to memcached's uber performance.

And, moxi (the memcached/membase proxy) is keeping pace with the new vbucket improvements.  You can find the latest moxi open-source development work happening on the 'vbucket' branch here: http://github.com/northscale/moxi/tree/vbucket.

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One terrific part of the NorthScale startup adventure has been that we've been lucky to have so many great interactions with the memcached community -- including folks who've used memcached to power some of the largest and most popular web applications and sites on the planet. It seems appropriate as we launch NorthScale to take a moment to pull together a few war stories and lessons learned to date, and roll them up into a larger pattern that I'd like to call "The Memcached Way."

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A new meme appeared recently at the NoSQL East meetup, suggesting that NoSQL should really stand for "Not Only SQL".  This is a great improvement over plain-old "No SQL" moniker. 

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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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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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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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