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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: ilyagrigorik</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/ilyagrigorik.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-02-11T22:05:11+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Nginx and Memcached, a 400% boost!</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/11/nginx/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-02-11T22:05:11+00:00</published><updated>2008-02-11T22:05:11+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Feb/11/nginx/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.igvita.com/2008/02/11/nginx-and-memcached-a-400-boost/"&gt;Nginx and Memcached, a 400% boost!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Ilya Grigorik wrote up my current favourite nginx trick—you set nginx to check memcached for a cache entry matching the current URL on every hit, then invalidate your cache by pushing a new cache record straight in to memcached from your application server.


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