Comment by alt227

> every time I need to do something slightly weird, there's a sensible and well thought out way to achieve it.

In my world cache systems like memcached and redis are just that, a cache to put and get from. Possibly use some invalidation system like tagging.

What can you do with a cache system that is 'wierd'? What are people doing with caches other than just caching data?

Genuinely interested.