Ilya Grigorik has posted a very good summary of a talk that Brian Aker and Alan Kasindorf gave about memcached at MySQL User Conference last week. The article is straight to the point in regards to several key attributes about memcached, and serves up almost 30 direct tips and tidbits about how to use memcached in a more optimal way. Awesome reading, and well worth to check out together with the slides from the memcached talk.