Memcached

Lesson in the Backend Developer Roadmap · Stage 9: Learn about Web Servers

Last updated 14 September 2026

What is Memcached?

Memcached is a distributed memory-caching system that speeds up dynamic websites by caching data and objects in RAM. Provides large distributed hash table across multiple machines with LRU eviction. Applications layer requests in RAM before falling back to slower backing stores.

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Can I learn Memcached in Hindi?

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Is this Memcached tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 54 of 155 in the free Backend roadmap, in stage 9, Learn about Web Servers. If you are new to Backend, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.