[Zope-dev] ZCatalog caching with memcached

[Hedley Roos]

Hi all

The past few weeks I've been optimizing a busy Plone site and so 
collective.catalogcache was born.

It uses memcached as a distributed ZCatalog cache. It is currently in 
production and seems to be holding just fine. The site went from being 
unusable to serving quite a bit of data.

I'll modify it in future to not be too tied to just memcached, but 
that's still some way off. BTW, if you do not have memcached available 
the catalog functions as usual.

It's only been tested for Zope 2.9.6 - 2.10.6.

The repo is at 
http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/collective.catalogcache. The URL 
may contain the word Plone but it's all Zope :) The readme contains more 
info and instructions.

The product is a monkey patch to Catalog.py. I'd love some feedback and 
suggestions.

Hedley