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Tag Archive 'Caching'

Cloud Computing Best Practices

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009

An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site. 

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Moxi - a MemCached Proxy

Posted in Grid Computing on Sep 9th, 2009

 Moxi(memcached proxy) enables you to scale up  / down your memcached layer without losing cached items:

Moxi - Memcached Proxy
View more documents from NorthScale.

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MemCached V Velocity Caching comparison

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Jul 1st, 2009

Informative comparison of Memcached (+MemCached .Net lib) V Velocity which looks at features and performance:
Features
No question here, Velocity has it licked. Memcached offers you, errr, ‘Put’ and ‘Get’ pretty much. Velocity gives you such lovelies as:

Cache Invalidation (things in SQL changing can expire the cache)
Cache Groups (so you can specify different policies for different types of [...]

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MemCached Round up

Posted in Grid Computing, Uncategorized on Jun 7th, 2009

There is a nice video from the guys at Facebook no how they tweaked and added to Facebook to enable this hugely popular site to scale which you can access here.
A very nice overview and introduction to MemCached here with examples in different languages for the programmer.
A guide with code about using Memcached as singleton with [...]

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MemCached Updates

Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on May 21st, 2009

Memcached now has persistent queues via 0.6 of the  Gearman C server and library. The persistent queue allows background jobs to be stored via the pluggable module, so if the job server crashes or is shutdown, the queue module can repopulate the job server with any jobs that were not yet complete. 
Sun scale Memcached to 500K operations [...]

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Eclipse Plug-in for GigaSpaces & Model Driven Generation Application

Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 25th, 2009

It looks like an Eclipse plug-in for GigaSpaces next generation  Application server, in which the middleware (Logic, Data, Messaging) is virtualised in Memory will soon be released.

Also NT/e have released GigaSystem Builder as part of their JeeWiz model driven development product range. This also functions as an Eclipse plug-in but focuses on model driven development [...]

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New MemCacheD appliance

Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 25th, 2009

Gear6 has announced  the launch of its new Web Cache product, a hardware appliance that is built around memcached. The product leverages a combination of DRAM and Flash memory to deliver significantly higher density than conventional memcached solutions. It can accommodate up to 320GB in a 1U form factor.
You can find the technical specifications here.

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Securing a Coherence cache

Posted in Grid Computing on Apr 18th, 2009

Nice article on securing an Oracle Coherence cache with Code example and download from Ashish - http://tinyurl.com/c6xzkl

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Coherence Update: New Incubator project releases & Production checklist

Posted in Grid Computing, HPC on Apr 10th, 2009

Oracle’s Coherence has had a new release of all the incubator projects. These include updates to the messaging pattern and also the Push Replication Pattern. You can find more information on these here. Also of interest for Coherence users will be the publication of a production checklist for the deployment of Coherence.

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