In which language Memcached is written and who is the author?
Memcached is primarily written in the C programming language. It was originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick in 2003 while he was working at LiveJournal, but now it is used by Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Netlog, YouTube, etc.
a popular social networking site at the time. Fitzpatrick created Memcached to address the performance bottlenecks LiveJournal was experiencing due to heavy database load.
Memcached was later released as an open-source project, and it has since become one of the most widely used caching systems in the world, powering many high-traffic websites and web applications.
