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ASP.NET has become a highly popular technology for developing Web applications. A large number of these ASP.NET applications need to scale to accommodate the growing number of transactions and traffic ...

Distributed caches are used to improve the performance and scalability of applications. Typically, a distributed cache is shared by multiple application servers. In a distributed cache, the cached ...

The advent of the emerging field of Big Data brought with it the promise of highly-scalable databases that could handle terabytes of data at a time. As anyone dealing with colossal datasets will ...

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As enterprise computing enters the brave new world of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it becomes more and more important to seek new ways to describe, publish, and discover your services. The Web ...

Microsoft has unveiled a distributed in-memory application cache platform it says will boost the performance and scalability of .NET apps. The company describes the server -- dubbed Project "Velocity" ...

Caching is a quick and easy way to save roundtrips between your application and where you store your data. However, it’s not as easy as just snapping a map into your application – to really leverage a ...

I've been necessarily brief explaining both Memcached and LiveJournal's backend, so please e-mail me at [email protected] for any more information. Also, check out the ...