Articles

• LinuxJournal article by Brad Fitzpatrick (2004)
• fotolog's memcached usage and patterns (2008)
• LinuxJournal print column on memcached (2008)

Slides

• Caching and Performance Lessons from Facebook (2008)
• LiveJournal's Backend A History of Scaling
• Memcached for Mysql Advanced Use Cases by Farhan Mashraqi of Fotolog, 2008
• IMVU's scalability approach: sharding, memcached (2008) PDF version
• Scaling with memcached (slides)
• Memcached and Mysql tutorial (2008)
• Memcached Study slides by Brian Aker and dormando (2008)
• memcached presentations at slideshare
• If you share a presentation about memcached at slideshare, be sure to tag it with 'memcached'

Blog posts

• APC or Memcached Article - MySQL Performance Blog (2006)
• The secret to using memcached (2007)
• Dormando's memcached tag
• N things you can do with memcached (2009)
• How to Dramatically Speed Up Your Web Application: An Introduction to memcached (2007)
• Memcached 1.3.2 versus 1.2.6 performance test, 350K ops/second (2009)

Books about or referencing memcached

• Using Memcached ebook
• High Performance MySQL 2nd ed (discusses caching in many forms)

Docs and Links

• Using MySQL with memcached reference manual chapter
• wikipedia entry on memcached
• Spawn of memcached