You will be writing a distributed chat room application, where a nearly unlimited number of people could potentially be talking at the same time. The previous statements made by other users will be remembered in memory for a certain period of time, after which they will be forgotten. When a user first connects to the server they will be sent the entire transcript of messages that have not timed out on the server, after which they will be able to participate anonymously in the ongoing conversation. At any point in the conversation, they may quit, by typing the word '/quit'. Implementing these requirements will demonstrate a number of important API methods of the spymemcached driver talking to a Couchbase server, which is providing the distributed storage capabilities.

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