Accelerating Memcached News Today

Apr 12, 2021 et al. will present their paper BMC: Accelerating Memcached using Safe In-kernel Caching and Pre-stack Processing at NSDI 2021. In this paper, the authors propose to speed up Memcached using eBPF by implementing a transparent, first-level cache at the XDP hook. It’s not everyday we see BPF being used on application protocols! This blog post is a summary of the paper and its main results. Full disclosure, I used to work with some of the authors. Introduction Memcached is a popula...