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This Thursday evening we're hosting an all-night hackathon for memcached developers at Yahoo!'s Sunnyvale campus. You can come and code all night long (that's what makes it a hackathon), or stop by in the evening to meet developers from the community and developers at Yahoo! who use memcached on sites like MyBlogLog to improve speed and scalability.

We're hoping to ship some new features and release the binary protocol. We'll be hacking from 8:00 PM Thursday till 7:00 AM Friday morning. Food and drink will be served.

Memcached is a distributed memory caching system that lets you store information of any type across multiple servers (clusters). It improves performance by letting you cache specific, frequently used information directly in memory. Instead of constantly reading from your database, the data you need is more readily accessible. The memcached layer sits in the middle between the front-end of your site and the database servers.

Memcached was developed by Danga Interactive for Live Journal, but is now widely used. It's available via a permissive free software license.

You can find more detailed info about this event on Upcoming (let us know if you're planning to come so we can order plenty of food). There's also a wiki, and even a listing on Facebook. Hope to see you there.

Photo from kentbrew.

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