# OSCON 2008: Slides


By Ben Ramsey

Published on July 25, 2008


Here are my slides for the [memcached](http://memcached.org/) presentation I gave at [OSCON](http://www.oscon.com/oscon2008) this year. I experimented with a new slide template, which turned out for the worst, since the contrast of the type on the screen was very poor, making it difficult for attendees to read. I apologize for this. In addition, I was completely distracted during my entire talk by loud music coming from the room next door. Nevertheless, the majority of my audience was still around even after I ran 5–10 minutes over schedule, eating into their free beer time, so I suppose that says something and that they were learning. :-D

Thanks to all who attended!

## Give Your Site a Boost With Memcache

Today's high-traffic websites must implement performance-boosting measures that reduce data processing and reduce load on the database, while increasing the speed of content delivery. One such method is the use of a cache to temporarily store whole pages, database recordsets, large objects, and sessions. While many caching mechanisms exist, memcached provides one of the fastest and easiest-to-use caching servers. This talk will cover memcached and the memcache extension for PHP from setting up a memcached server to using it to provide a variety of caching solutions, including the use of memcached as a session data store.

[View and download slides.](https://speakerdeck.com/ramsey/give-your-site-a-boost-with-memcache-oscon-2008)