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In Praise of Memcached

If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someoneโ€™s infrastructure , chances are that at some point in time the topic โ€œwe need a cacheโ€ comes up.

You think for a moment and reach out for Redis, because youโ€™re used to it, itโ€™s fully featured, and it works! You remember it being a good, solid cache, and you wonder which new features recent releases have brought, and head to its homepage:

Your agents arenโ€™t failing. Their context is.

How can I use Redis Iris as a real-time context engine for AI apps? 1

Right, so probably something with AI 2 . This is sort of understandable, because Redis is a company that wants to make money.

Anyways, Redis homepage aside, you deploy it, and off you go - your trusty cache. You hand the connection string to the people who asked for it, and off you go.