# Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure

DevFeed: [Memcached-Backed Content Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/memcached-backed-content-infrastructure-27393.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/memcached-fms.htm>)

Author: Khan Academy

Published: 2017-05-15T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Khan Academy](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/khan-academy.md>)

Topics: [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [memcached](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memcached.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [profiling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/profiling.md>)

## AI overview

Khan Academy describes testing and rolling out a Memcached-backed content-serving backend. The article explains the existing content versioning and storage model, the performance limitations of fetching many individual items, and the prior approach of loading a compressed site-wide content bundle at server startup.

## Source excerpt

By Ben Kraft Last post, I wrote about how we did profiling on App Engine's Memcached service to ... Read more