Ruby Forum Ruby on Rails > [ANN] Call for Alpha Users - CloudCache.net

Posted by Marc Byrd (Guest)
on 13.03.2008 16:46
(Received via mailing list)
Howdy!

CloudCache.net is seeking alpha users for our new metered service.  The
CloudCache services include:

   - Basic memcached capabilities wrapped in a ReSTful API
   - Improvements on memcached including the ability to backup,
   reconfigure, restore, and list keys.  This allows us to grow our 
memcached
   farm transparently to our users.
   - Improved reliability - your keys and values are hashed across our
   memcached farm, so the odds of losing any significant portion of your 
cached
   data are minimized (along with great reliability of EC2 service and 
our
   backup and restore capabilities).
   - Indexing for search - unlike lucene, ferret, solr, etc., the 
reverse
   indices are stored in memcached for ultimate performance and 
scalability.
   - Search, filtering, and ranking - after pulling the reverse indices
   from memcached, the service uses your rules for ranking, filtering 
(by other
   indices), and pagination.
   - Set and Get via url into memcached - great for thumbnails and
   anything else under the conventional 1MB memcached limit.


CloudCache.net is built within the Amazon EC2 cloud, and will ultimately 
be
provided as a metered service along the lines of S3.

Attributes of alpha users who will be selected:

   - AWS/EC2 users are preferred, as the network latency within the 
cloud
   is expected to be better, or at least more controlled and consistent.
   - Existing search and perhaps problematic performance
   - Pro-ReST and Pro-SOA
   - For search, provide access to db (mysql preferred) and your current
   search fields, ranking, filtering, etc.  We will help build the 
search web
   service to support your requirements.
   - Willingness to provide positive references if/when you have 
positive
   experiences, especially hard metrics showing the before and after
   improvement.

Our commitment to you is that we will not lock you into the service. 
Our
backup and key listing service gives us the ability to provide you with
everything you need to migrate out of the service.

If you're interested in being a CloudCachet.net alpha user, or if you 
have
any questions about the alpha program, please send email to
Alpha@cloudcache.net .

Thanks for your kind attention,


Marc