Though, to argue with the article's title -- while a straightforward addition of more memcached nodes did not solve their capacity problem, the strategy of replicating nodes & load balancing read requests between them appears to be a solution to this particular capacity problem; so more machines = more capacity, so long as they are organized appropriately.
Though, to argue with the article's title -- while a straightforward addition of more memcached nodes did not solve their capacity problem, the strategy of replicating nodes & load balancing read requests between them appears to be a solution to this particular capacity problem; so more machines = more capacity, so long as they are organized appropriately.