I definitely agree - I think it's one of the bad design decisions of Starling and it's kind of misleading to say that it 'speaks' Memcached since although that's technically true, really, it has nothing to do with it. It conflates the two when they shouldn't be.

It's one of the reasons why I said in the meeting on Monday that we should abstract out the fast parallel async stuff so that it can be used in Memcached, Net::Stomp and the other stuff we were talking about.