Worked on stabilizing Memcached integration within the opf/helm-charts repository by addressing YAML parsing failures that previously caused deployment issues. Focused on configuration management and DevOps practices, the work involved implementing validation logic in Ruby and YAML to ensure that only valid host and port values are used when constructing server addresses. This approach prevented invalid ':' values from triggering YAML parse errors and improved startup reliability by defaulting to an empty string when external connection values were missing. Comprehensive test coverage was added to verify the new validation, reducing operational incidents and supporting more resilient external Memcached deployments.