<story><title>Memcached 1.6</title><url>https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes160</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pachico</author><text>This is not a rhetorical question, I&amp;#x27;m asking our of curiosity&amp;#x2F;ignorance. If you were about to start a new project, for what reasons would you choose Memcached over Redis? Or probably better said, for which use cases?</text></comment>
<story><title>Memcached 1.6</title><url>https://github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes160</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kator</author><text>What I like about Memcached is it&amp;#x27;s just that, it works, written in C, oh and my goodness uses Perl tests!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not re-written every other year in the latest hot language. It chugs along, without embarrassment, doing one thing amazingly well over 17 years...</text></comment>