diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+++ b/README.md
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ A collection of delicious docker recipes.
 - [x] taskd
 - [x] tftpd
 - [x] tmail :beetle:
+- [x] twemproxy
 - [x] vsftpd
 - [x] webhook
 - [x] webkit :beetle:
diff --git a/twemproxy/Dockerfile b/twemproxy/Dockerfile
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+#
+# Dockerfile for twemproxy
+#
+
+FROM alpine:3
+
+ENV TWEMPROXY_VERSION=0.4.1
+ENV TWEMPROXY_URL=https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy/archive/v${TWEMPROXY_VERSION}.tar.gz
+ENV TWEMPROXY_HOME=/opt/twemproxy
+
+WORKDIR ${TWEMPROXY_HOME}
+
+RUN set -xe \
+    && apk --no-cache add -t TMP alpine-sdk autoconf automake curl libtool tar \
+    && mkdir -p conf logs src \
+    && curl -sSL ${TWEMPROXY_URL} | tar xz --strip 1 -C src \
+    && cd src \
+    && autoreconf -fvi \
+    && CFLAGS="-O3" ./configure \
+    && make install \
+    && nutcracker --version \
+    && cd .. \
+    && rm -rf src \
+    && apk del TMP
+
+EXPOSE 22222
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["nutcracker"]
+CMD ["--help"]
diff --git a/twemproxy/README.md b/twemproxy/README.md
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+twemproxy
+=========
+
+[twemproxy][1] (pronounced "two-em-proxy"), aka nutcracker is a fast and
+lightweight proxy for memcached and redis protocol. It was built primarily to
+reduce the number of connections to the caching servers on the backend. This,
+together with protocol pipelining and sharding enables you to horizontally
+scale your distributed caching architecture.
+
+## up and running
+
+```bash
+$ docker-compose up -d
+
+$ docker-compose exec redis redis-cli -h twemproxy
+twemproxy:6379> ping
+PONG
+twemproxy:6379> set hello world
+OK
+twemproxy:6379> get hello
+"world"
+twemproxy:6379> del hello
+(integer) 1
+
+$ tail -f data/twemproxy/logs/nutcracker.log
+```
+
+[1]: https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy
diff --git a/twemproxy/data/redis/.gitkeep b/twemproxy/data/redis/.gitkeep
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diff --git a/twemproxy/data/twemproxy/conf/nutcracker.yml b/twemproxy/data/twemproxy/conf/nutcracker.yml
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+alpha:
+  listen: 0.0.0.0:6379
+  hash: fnv1a_64
+  distribution: ketama
+  auto_eject_hosts: true
+  redis: true
+  server_retry_timeout: 2000
+  server_failure_limit: 1
+  servers:
+   - redis:6379:1
diff --git a/twemproxy/data/twemproxy/logs/nutcracker.log b/twemproxy/data/twemproxy/logs/nutcracker.log
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diff --git a/twemproxy/docker-compose.yml b/twemproxy/docker-compose.yml
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+version: "3.7"
+
+services:
+
+  twemproxy:
+    image: vimagick/twemproxy
+    command: >
+      --conf-file=conf/nutcracker.yml
+      --output=logs/nutcracker.log
+      --verbose=5
+    ports:
+      - "6379:6379"
+      - "22222:22222"
+    volumes:
+      - ./data/twemproxy:/opt/twemproxy
+    depends_on:
+      - redis
+    restart: unless-stopped
+
+  redis:
+    image: redis:alpine
+    volumes:
+      - ./data/redis:/data
+    restart: unless-stopped