> > However, wouldn't it be simple enough to make a UI using PHP or > something that was totally portable and you could list multiple > servers and such? This says "built in" to memcached. Maybe that's what > scares me... is this actually bolted into memcached itself or am I > just getting stuck on the words :) >
Just by briefly reading his email, it sounds like he's adding his own callbacks to libevent and intercepting events, then storing them for display via the in-process webserver. I'm guessing this was a performance consideration, but PHP really doesn't offer the sort of capability to hook in that way--you'd wind up at the same point we're currently at, where people complain about not being able to dump out the contents of memcached. I'm not saying don't be scared (though this shouldn't be going into production, anyway), though ;-)
