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Guest post: Tom Rosenfeld, Team Lead, Come2Play

Come2Play is a company that serves multiplayer web games online. Our site serves over 4 million players on a monthly basis, with tens of thousands of players at any given moment. We use MySQL as our database and IIS on our web servers, which run ASP.Net and classic asp (legacy code).

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Welcome back!  This is the third installment of the "Membase for Dummies" video blog series. The other entries in the series are:

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In some of the recent Membase meetups, the topic of what moxi does for clients has been discussed a bit.  The bit of background many folks didn't initially have is that moxi began life as being a way to bring some "smarter" capabilities to some memcached clients, using many of the same techniques Dustin had written into spymemcached.

Mainly this was for PHP and Ruby clients, which typically run with many processes that either don't share resources at all or use apartment multithreading under Apache 2.

But, it wasn't yet ready for Membase and vBuckets...

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Today I had the pleasure of spending some time with Attila Kisko, a Membase contributor and the author and maintainer of Enyim - the Membase Client Library for .NET. On holiday in San Francisco from Budapest, Hungary, Attila came by the office for a visit. I enjoyed our conversation, and thought I’d share some of it with others who may want to know a bit about the man behind one of the most popular and widely deployed open source client libraries within the Membase user community.

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This is just a quick post to say we really enjoyed last Wednesday's Membase meetup with a group of great developers right here in the heart of Silicon Valley. Thanks to everyone who came - it was an excellent discussion. We have had several requests for the slides, which are available below and on slideshare.

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This morning, Matt Aslett of The 451 blogged on The beginning of the end of NoSQL in which he highlighted the uselessness of the NoSQL category name. Good post, as usual. But this isn't new news. People have been griping about the term since the day it was coined.

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It’s been a busy week with our inaugural meetups in New York City and Boston.

We've enjoyed meeting Membase users, and interacting with those interested in trying out the software for the first time. The feedback on the meetups and the content has been overwhelmingly positive, with great suggestions for future gatherings. In particular, attendees liked our content on how to program with key-value stores – we’ll make sure to cover that in more depth in upcoming meetups.

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Hello again and welcome to the second installment of the "Membase for Dummies" video blog series. (The first one, on Membase install and config, is available here)

In this quick (3.5 minute) video, I walk you through adding multiple nodes to your Membase cluster. There are two ways of doing this and both are demonstrated in the video below.  I then take you through the rebalancing process to make my one-node cluster a three-node cluster.

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This is the inaugural post in my "Membase for Dummies" series. The goal of this series is to provide users with quick (5 minutes or less) tutorials on various aspects of Membase functionality.

This first entry is focused on getting your first node of Membase up and running. In this two-minute video, I walk you through the process of downloading, installing and setting up Membase.

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I have been working on getting Membase up'n'running on OpenSolaris as a side project. Most of it is already in place, but there are still some Makefile issues to sort out. I thought that while we're waiting to complete that task, I could show you how to easily run moxi as a service controlled by SMF.

I've created some scripts to make it easier for you to build and install everything, so the first we need to do is to check out (or update your clone) of my tools repository:

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