Dynamic consumer content on the Web is straining the LAMP stack and demands a new caching tier for maximum scale. Take a hit of Memcached and the sky's the scalability limit, but be careful not to overdose. This presentation offers best practices and gotcha's for scaling LAMP-based sites with open technologies like Memcached.

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