Recently, I encountered an intriguing code challenge: build a CLI to connect to Memcached.
My initial thought was to use telnet to interact with the Memcached server. However, after spending some time reading the Memcached protocol documentation I decided to use Netcat instead.
This blog post shares my experience and explains how to use netcat to connect to Memcached, illustrating some basic commands.
Prerequisites
Ensure the following before starting:
Memcached
Netcat
Protocol Explained
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