>http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?faq#how_to_prevent_clobbering_updates_stampeding_requests
The link found on the page related to consistent hashing seems stale: http://http//www.last.fm/user/RJ/journal/2007/04/10/392555/ Hanson On 7/28/07, dormando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brad: One day I'll use the totally sweet Gearman ;) I linked to your > post in the FAQ. > > Steven: Turns out I'm not as dumb as I thought: > http://www.socialtext.net/memcached/index.cgi?faq#how_to_prevent_clobbering_updates_stampeding_requests > > ... my original FAQ entry opens (clearly, I hope) by saying what you > suggested, then wanders off into alternatives. Which was discussed > further on the mailing list. > > So! Sorry for the back and forth :( Apparantly I forgot what I had just > written. You're right to question why alternatives even needed > discussion, but some of us have/had fairly awkward caching primitives > which leads to something like this. > > -Dormando >
