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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

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Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook

Overview of this book

Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of integrated capabilities that extend IIS and the Windows Server platform making it easier to build, scale and manage composite applications today. Windows Server AppFabric delivers the first wave of innovation within an exciting new middleware paradigm which brings performance, scalability and enhanced management capabilities to the platform for applications built on the .NET Framework using Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' shows you how to get the most from WCF and WF services using Windows Server AppFabric leveraging the capabilities for building composite solutions on the .NET platform. Packed with over 60 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, 'Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook' starts by showing you how to set up your development environment to start using Windows Server AppFabric quickly. The book then moves on to provide comprehensive coverage of the most important capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric, diving right in to hands-on topics such as deploying WCF and WF applications to Windows Server AppFabric and leveraging the distributed caching, scalable hosting, persistence, monitoring and management capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer, with recipes covering a full spectrum of complexity from simple to intermediate and advanced.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 2. Getting Started with AppFabric Caching

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Initializing Cache Client using code

  • Initializing Cache Client using configuration

  • Programming AppFabric Cache Client

  • Using AppFabric Cache via the ASP.NET provider model

  • Using AppFabric local cache

  • Using the AppFabric cache management tool

  • Building a custom provider model

  • Handling common Windows Server AppFabric caching errors

Introduction

In distributed applications, object caching offers significant performance gains compared to direct database access. Historically, we have come to believe that performance and scalability are like two faces of the same coin; one can either get the system to perform better or have it optimized for scalability.

The use of distributed in-memory caching not only helps with performance, but also with scalability. If you cannot scale up then you have to scale out and that is exactly how distributed in-memory caching works for Windows Server AppFabric.

Note

Scale out, or the horizontal scaling...