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Mcrouter: a memcached protocol router

Mcrouter is an Open Source tool developed by Facebook for scaling up the memcached deployments:

Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached (http://memcached.org/) deployments. It’s a core component of cache infrastructure at Facebook and Instagram where mcrouter handles almost 5 billion requests per second at peak.

Here is a good overview of some of the scenarios where Mcrouter is useful.  There’s more than one.  Here are some of the features to get you started:

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