Thanks for trying it out. I am not a joomla developer. Just another happy user...

Good one...

Very cool. Started up the appliance in vmware workstation. We have a python web app that servers up some huge ps and pdf files that can be viewed in your browser. Modified our python web app to use the memcached python API and access the Hermes appliance. I query the cache before accessing the file store. If the file is not in the cache, i go get it from the data store and put in the cache. The difference in performance was amazing. The cool thing was that you can actually retrieve multiple keys from the cache one time. Very easy to use, tiny footprint, very innovative and most importantly solves my business probelm. great work. +5

The python code was this simple:

import memcache
mc = memcache.Client(['192.168.1.110:11211'], debug=0)

data = mc.get('my_test_file_data')

if not data:
   print 'data is not in cache. retrieving from file store and putting it in cache'
   mc.set('my_test_file_data', get_file_data_from_store())
else:
   print 'data is from cache'

use_the_data(data)

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Excellent work. We are using memcached with our J2EE webapps. It is a very simple way to cache stuff. This example code shows how to use a single memcached server, but you can actually use a pool of servers!!!

Here is a simple junit testcase that shows how to use memcached from Java. You will need to download the java memcached client from:
http://www.whalin.com/memcached/

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import junit.framework.TestCase;
import com.danga.MemCached.MemCachedClient;
import com.danga.MemCached.SockIOPool;

public class TestMemCached extends TestCase {
   public void testStoreAndRetrieveFromCache() {
      // this is the address that is displayed when you start up the hermes appliance
      String[] cacheServers = { "10.10.16.100:11211" };

      // create a pool of memcached servers with the name hermes
      SockIOPool pool = SockIOPool.getInstance("hermes");

      // set the list of servers used by the pool
      pool.setServers(cacheServers);

      // initialize the pool
      pool.initialize();

      // create a new memcached client which uses the above pool
      MemCachedClient mc = new MemCachedClient();
      mc.setPoolName("hermes");

      // turn off storing compressed data
      mc.setCompressEnable(false);

      // add data to the cache
      mc.set("testcachedata", new StringBuffer("Testing hermes virtual appliance"));

      // get the data that you just added to the cache
      StringBuffer o = (StringBuffer) mc.get("testcachedata");

      // assert that you actually got it
      assertEquals("Testing hermes virtual appliance", o.toString());
   }
}

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+5

--marco

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Does anyone know of any production sites that use memcached. Just trying to get a feel for the product. Good job BTW. Cool stuff.

Also the Django web framework in python and Ruby on Rails support memcached as the caching backend. So you can just plugin the Hermes appliance into either of these stacks, configure it and away you go.