Gavin, You are right about the overhead and also saw that API's exist for most of the languages as well. I thought REST API would make memcached language agnostic. I would like to hear from the community if the REST API should be pursued or not?
On Jul 28, 7:43 pm, "Gavin M. Roy" <[email protected]> wrote: > Why add the HTTP protocol overhead? REST/HTTP would add ~75Mbps of > additional traffic at 100k gets per second by saying there's a rough 100 > byte overhead per request over the ASCII protocol. I base the 100 bytes by > the HTTP GET request, minimal request headers and minimal response > headers. The binary protocol is very terse in comparison to the ASCII > protocol. In addition netcat or telnet works as good as curl for drop dead > simplicity. Don't get me wrong, it would be neat, but shouldn't be > considered in moderately well used memcached environments. > > Regards, > > Gavin > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, jsm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone writing or planning to write a REST API for memcached? > > If no such plan, I would be interested in writing a REST API. > > Any suggestions, comments welcome.
