Google Struggles with Its "Do First, Ask Forgiveness Later" Strategy
There’s an old saying: It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Few companies embody the concept more thoroughly than Google (GOOG). Boldly undertaking business and dealing later with consequences is as much a part of Google as search algorithms. However, the tactic takes as much from the company as it gives.
I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project.
Taken straight from the Memcached website, “Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system”. In other words, Memcached helps you increase application perfomance by caching data in memory. Using Memcached to load data instead of a database or file system can have a major impact on your applications performance. (Insert meaningless benchmark term such as “ten-fold” here.) The best part is these benefits only increase as load increases, so you get increase scalability for free.
Apache is an open-source HTTP server implementation. It is the most popular web server on the Internet; the December 2005 Web Server Survey conducted by Netcraft shows that about 70% of the web sites on Internet are using Apache.
This is a step by step guide to installing memcached from source on CentOS. The version of CentOS that I am using is CentOS release 5.2 (Final); to find what version you are using:
