High traffic - Multiple requests to set same memcached key? <p>I'm setting up memcached. I have a couple questions regarding high traffic and best practice for updating/setting keys. I'm creating a online game where users are assigned points in a increment of 10,50,100. </p> <p>Use : Store user "game stats" in keys and running a cron job every 5 minutes or so to update the stats permanently in the datastore. This way the "game" can function without ever going to the db to crud values, points. </p> <p>Will use warm up scripts to pull and populate keys for user stats</p> <p>Questions :<br> 1)Would there be a issue down the road with high traffic and trying to write to that users points key? </p> <p>2)Best practice for incrementing values in memcache?</p> <p>This is a rough idea of what I'm using now </p> <pre><code>$newval = $memcache-&gt;get( $key ); $memcache-&gt;set($key, $newval+10, false, 1000) or die ("Failed to save data at the server"); </code></pre> <p>3)Recommendations for storing users game stats in memcache? Any input would be greatly appreciated. </p> <p>Thank you all!</p>