Netflix/rend
A memcached proxy that manages data chunking and L1 / L2 caches observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4053
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2462
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1192 stars · 90 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Rend is a memcached-compatible proxy server written in Go that manages data chunking and coordinates L1 (RAM) and L2 (SSD-backed) cache tiers. It was developed at Netflix to complement EVCache and is designed to handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections.
Use cases
- proxy memcached traffic across L1 and L2 cache tiers
- chunk large values to avoid memcached slab fragmentation
- add an SSD-backed L2 cache in front of memcached
- handle tens of thousands of concurrent cache connections
- load test and verify correctness of memcached deployments
- run a caching layer alongside EVCache at scale
When to choose
- you run memcached at Netflix-like scale and need L1/L2 tiering
- slab fragmentation or memory pressure is causing evictions
- you need a memcached-protocol proxy with modular backends
- you want chunking to handle large or variable-size cache values
When to avoid
- you use Redis rather than memcached
- you need a small-scale or simple cache with no tiering
- you require active development and recent releases (last release 2019)
- you need full memcached protocol coverage rather than a subset
Facets
service · maturity maintenance
caching proxy http-server databases infrastructure-as-code cloud-computing performance go self-hosted memcached l1-l2-cache evcache data-chunking ssd-cache netflix linux docker
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/Netflix/rend · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1aa18fc803b1
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