links for 2007-03-08

• The Spread Toolkit
  “Spread is an open source toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service that is resilient to faults across local and wide area networks.” – got this from Cal Hendersens excellent book Building Scaleable Web Sites
  (tags: api architecture distributed apache)
• mod_log_spread
  mod_log_spread is a patch to Apache’s mod_log_config, which provides an interface for spread to multicast access logs. It utilizes the group communication toolkit Spread, developed at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Networking and Distributed System
  (tags: apache logging spread)
• memcached: a distributed memory object caching system
  memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
  (tags: optimization caching opensource)

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