reminiscing the cache wars
Recently at work people are discussing the merits of different cache servers. That brought back memories of my days as the R&D Product lead for a line of cache systems. The high point was participating in the two week “Cache Bake Off” hosted by NLANR (the team broke off and formed The Measurement Factory. This was great fun where engineering teams from major companies got together to have thier systems pounded in a no holds barred performance test. I was working for a hardware company that had thier sights firmly set of being the leading tier two vendor (Tier one was considered too competative to take exponential growth risks). I think my gear nailed it by achieving 80% of the performance of the leadning brand at 1/5 the price. (And you could cluster 2 for less then half the cost and have over 50% better performance - if you order now you can get fee overnight shipping). ...