Author Archives: Iqbal Khan

How to Synchronize Distributed Cache with Oracle Database using OracleCacheDependency?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Iqbal Khan

Multi-tier .NET applications are the real trend now-a-days. These .NET applications make heavy use of the database. But as you know the database trips are very expensive and it quickly becomes a scalability bottleneck. Therefore, many people are starting to … Continue reading →

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How to Replicate a Distributed Cache across the WAN

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Iqbal Khan

Web applications today are handling millions of users a day. And, even with this high traffic, you have to maintain high performance for your users. To achieve this performance goal, many people are using in-memory distributed cache because it is … Continue reading →

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How to Handle ASP.NET Session State Storage in Multi-Site Deployments

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Iqbal Khan

ASP.NET has become really popular for developing high traffic web applications. And, many of these applications are deployed to multiple geographical locations. This is done either for disaster recovery purposes or for handling regional traffic by having the ASP.NET application … Continue reading →

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How to Use Custom Dependency in Distributed Cache?

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Iqbal Khan

Today, web applications are increasingly using distributed cache for boosting performance and scalability by caching frequently used data so as to reduce expensive database trips. Distributed cache spans and synchronizes over multiple cache servers to let you scale in a … Continue reading →

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How to Configure .NET 4.0 Cache to use a Distributed Cache?

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

In-memory distributed cache today has become really popular for applications running in a multi-server environment because it helps improve application scalability and performance. Until .NET Framework 3.5 there was ASP.NET Cache object available only for web application under System.Web.Caching namespace. … Continue reading →

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How to Cache ASP.NET View State in a Distributed Cache?

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

ASP.NET today is widely used for high traffic web applications that can need to handle millions of users and are deployed in load balanced web farms. One important part of ASP.NET is View State that many applications use. ASP.NET View … Continue reading →

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How to Configure Preloading in a Distributed Cache?

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

Today’s applications need to scale and handle extreme levels of transaction loads. But, databases are unable to scale and therefore become a bottleneck. To resolve this, many people are turning to in-memory distributed cache because it scales linearly and removes … Continue reading →

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Class Versioning in Runtime Data Sharing with Distributed Cache

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

Today many organizations use .NET and Java technologies to develop different high traffic applications. At the same time, these applications not only have a need to share data with each other but also want to support runtime sharing of different … Continue reading →

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Develop Real Time Applications using Distribute Cache Continuous Query

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

High traffic real time applications are widely used in enterprise environment. In real time applications information is made available to you in moments it’s produced and any delay in doing so can cause a serious financial loss. The main challenge … Continue reading →

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Event Driven .NET and Java Data Sharing thru Distributed Cache

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Iqbal Khan

These days, many companies are running both .NET and Java applications in their enterprise environment. And, often these applications need to share data with each other at runtime. The most common way they do that today is by storing the … Continue reading →

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