NorthScalers recently made notable advancements involving memcached technology, with Dustin Sallings introducing EMemcached, a memcached server implementation in Erlang, sparking considerable interest due to the unique combination of technologies. In parallel, Patrick Galbraith announced the integration of memcached user-defined functions (UDFs) into the mainline of the Drizzle project, a MySQL fork, making it more accessible to work with memcached within the Drizzle relational database management system. The team continues to focus on developing innovative Scale Out Data infrastructure, promising further exciting developments.