Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> I can't imagine Flickr or Slashdot ...
>
> I'm pretty sure I remember reading that Slashdot had to put enormous
> amounts of cacheing in front of their DB to keep it from falling over
> on a regular basis.
Yes, slashdot and flickr both use memcached:
http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2005-November/001726.html
"...we use both memcached and squid at flickr. ..."
http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2003-July/000017.html
"...Slashdot's been using memcached to serve its comment text"