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Cachegrand, a Fast, Scalable Keystore for Data-Oriented Development

It’s easy to see https://github.com/danielealbano/cachegrand a new open source project created by Microsoft Senior Software Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielesalvatorealbano/, is a labor of love. Albano describes Cachegrand as a, “modern, blazing fast open source caching platform designed for performance [and] built for speed,” in his talk “cachegrand: A take on High-Performance Caching” at https://www.scylladb.com/?utm_content=inline-mention‘s P99 Conf 2022. The software written in C, scales vertically (almost linearly), and aims for compatibility with most known caching solutions. He was also upfront about its general purpose use and the slower speeds for specific use cases, though didn’t list them specifically.

Albano is working on updates that will include support for Memcache, Kafka, GraphQL, and other technologies are also under consideration.