Beginner's Guide to Website Performance with MySQL and memcached Adam Donnison (Sun Microsystems) Download the slides in .ODP format at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/21/Beginner%27s%20Guide%20to%20Website%20Performance%20with%20MySQL%20and%20memcached%20Presentation.odp The description, taken from the official conference page is at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/7009 Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system that is getting a lot of press at the moment for its ability to provide a high-performance front-end for database applications. Sure, memcached can do wonders, but where is it most effective and what are the pain points? When a site grows the site administrator starts to worry about how to maintain performance as the hit count rises. Should extra hardware be thrown at the problem synchronisation issues start to rear their heads. Writing caching code is  []