Category Archives: Distributed caching

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 Synchronize Distributed Cache with Database with CLR Stored Procedures

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

Distributed caching has become a very important part of any high transaction application in order to ensure that the database does not become a scalability bottleneck. But, since a distributed cache keeps a copy of your application data, you must … Continue reading →

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Using Distributed Cache in Entity Framework Applications

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping engine that provides abstraction from underlying relational database and therefore greatly simplifies development. Because of these benefits, more and more data-centric and high transactional applications and services are developed with Entity Framework. But, these … Continue reading →

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How to use LINQ for Searching Distributed Cache?

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

Distributed caching is becoming really popular among developers of high transaction applications because it improves your application’s performance and scalability. And, this popularity means that developers are caching more and more data in it which they also want to be … Continue reading →

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How SQLCacheDependency Synchronizes Distributed Cache with Database?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

Distributed Caching has become a popular way of improving .NET application performance and scalability. That is why developers are caching more and more data in distributed cache. However along with this come a few challenges. One important challenge is to … Continue reading →

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How to Improve ASP.NET Performance with Distributed Caching?

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

If your ASP.NET application only has a few users, you probably don’t care how fast or slow it is and it is probably giving you pretty good performance anyway. But, as you add more load to your ASP.NET application, the … Continue reading →

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How Cache Dependency Manages Data Relationships?

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

Distributed cache is becoming very popular because it is a powerful way to boost your application performance and scalability and handle extreme transaction load without slowing down. Both .NET and Java applications are using it more and more each day.  … Continue reading →

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When to use client cache with distributed caching

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Iqbal Khan

A distributed cache is essential for any application that demands fast performance during extreme transaction loads. An in-memory distributed cache is faster than a database. And, it can provide linear scalability in handling greater transaction loads because it can easily … Continue reading →

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