memcached

memcached

From the site : "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."

My first software job was for a company that wanted to cache the Intranet for the enterprise, a sort of indirect competitor for Akamai. I loved the concept of what we were trying to do. It was fascinating and exciting. Sadly, we lost focus and spun our wheels and never really found what the potential clients were looking for. I've never stopped wishing we could have succeeded, though. I think if we had been clever enough to have invented memcached, we might have had more success as opposed to spinning our wheels on developing a custom file system. Ironically, just as we were fizzling out, memcached was coming to life.

Reference: Web Caching of Wikipedia