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Make it clearer that groupcache is distributed
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## Summary
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groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a
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replacement for memcached in many cases.
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groupcache is a distributed caching and cache-filling library, intended as a
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replacement for a pool of memcached nodes in many cases.
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For API docs and examples, see http://godoc.org/github.com/golang/groupcache
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* does not require running a separate set of servers, thus massively
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reducing deployment/configuration pain. groupcache is a client
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library as well as a server. It connects to its own peers.
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library as well as a server. It connects to its own peers, forming
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a distributed cache.
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* comes with a cache filling mechanism. Whereas memcached just says
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"Sorry, cache miss", often resulting in a thundering herd of

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