Cache Layer Lately I found myself in some architecture consulting sessions at some customers. In every one of those customers I found myself explaining how to implement a cache layer in order to decrease the amount of round trips to the database and for better scalability. In this post I’ll try to explain in high level how to build a cache layer . Deciding to Build a Cache Layer Every application that performance is important to its developers and managers must contain some sort of caching . The...
Windows Server AppFabric One of the announcements in the PDC was the release of beta1 for a new windows server which is called AppFabric . What is AppFabric? From the AppFabric site – “ Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS. ” AppFabric is a collection of technologies in one consolidated place. These technologies are Microsoft Distributed Cache (aka “ Velocity ”), Windows Workflow...