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memcached client and server source from NorthScale

I guess most people don’t know this, but I’m the only member of the technical team in NorthScale located in Europe. I live just outside Trondheim in Norway, so it’s pretty far from everything.

So why did I join NorthScale? A lot of my friends in Trondheim have been asking me that question. To them it sounds strange that I want to work from home for a company located 9 timezones away. I’ve known Dustin Sallings and Steve Yen a couple of years through their work on memcached in the community, and I was excited to hear what they where up to. I’ve worked closely with Matt Ingenthron and Eric Lambert from my time in Sun, so I knew that they already had a talented team. Read more »

memcached and the client: Database UDFs

NorthScale’s own Patrick Galbraith has, for many years now, authored and maintained the MySQL, and now Drizzle, UDFs for memcached.  Last week, Patrick took this one step further with the latest release, version 1.1, which now includes support for “check and set” (a.k.a. CAS) operations. Read more »