Server-side Caching

Even if you fine-tune your database, your ADO code, your network, and so on, you will find that there is another way that beats them all when it comes to performance: caching. Caching is an old technique for increasing performance by storing frequently-used data on the server, therefore reducing costly round trips. You can also reduce the resource usage of those components in your system that you require less often. The trade-off is memory, but also increased complexity if the data is not read-only. Scalability and efficiency are factors that play a major part in the lives of developers. With the introduction of the .NET initiative from Microsoft, these factors will become more important, since the services found on the net have to be more and more scalable every day! This session will start by discussing some basics about caching. Then the focus will be on techniques for caching data in web-applications, both in ASP and in COM+. We will end with some case studies and recommendations.

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