Hey all -- I wanted to thank everyone who showed up to the memcached booth at the mySQL conference in Santa Clara last week. It was great to finally get to meet some of the project contributers and to see so many others come by to express their support and interest in memcached. The booth had a ton of traffic and we ended up spending most of our time answering a variety of questions and discussing potential changes/ additions to the project.
Although most of the questions that were asked in the booth have been covered in this group and elsewhere, I thought it might be interesting for people who were not there to get a sense for what was asked. Of all the projects represented in the dot-org pavilion (cakephp, phpmyadmin etc.), the memcached booth probably had the most traffic. In addition to the booth, there were also several sessions on memcached, which were well attended. Seems like overall interest among the attendees was very high, which is great to see. The type of questions/comments that were asked in the booth fell into the following buckets (most common stuff at the top): - typical tech support type questions - people who have heard of memcached and want to know where to start - people who already use memcached and love it (we got several "dude you guys rock!!" comments :) - questions about what memcached is and how it works - feature requests/questions Common tech support type questions we got were around various client libraries, how to add servers to a pool, how to use memcached with Hibernate, Joomla, Cacti, ... For the feature request type questions, here are some of the things that people asked for: - Feature to delete a specific key or some set of keys (e.g. that have been corrupted) - Better docs. Can they be enhanced with more "advanced" use cases? - Persistence (can't lose my server). Server hangs - needs something that stays up. - Density - hard data in DRAM and the rest in flash It was also interesting to learn that there are lots of silent users out there, i.e. many current users don't seem to be taking advantage of this Google Group to get help. The other folks that participated in the booth may have other info/ feedback, but this should give people an idea for what came up. Thanks again everyone!
