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Data persistence is critical in ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and durability in distributed caching. Both Redis and NCache offer options for this process, but their implementations differ significantly. This blog explores why it is essential, compares the mechanisms on offer, and highlights why NCache provides a more comprehensive solution for modern applications. NCache Details…

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MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database, particularly for modern .NET applications. However, it is still disk-based, which might lead to performance issues in situations with significant traffic, despite its flexibility, scalability, and powerful querying capabilities. This is where NCache, a distributed in-memory caching solution, comes in. Introducing NCache as a caching layer for MongoDB allows .NET applications…

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Node.js, the most popular runtime for scalable network applications, benefits excessively from distributed caching to store sessions. Modern web applications must manage user sessions effectively to provide smooth experiences on multiple servers. With NCache, a distributed in-memory cache for high-performance applications, Node.js applications are able to provide high availability, scalability, and lower latency. This blog…

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NCache provides distributed data structures (Lists, Queues, Sets, Dictionaries, and Counters) that allow for atomic, server-side operations in .NET and Java applications to ensure high performance and data consistency across clusters. High performance, scalability, and real-time responsiveness are requirements for modern applications. In a distributed environment, traditional data structures frequently become a bottleneck, even though…

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With the rising demand for high-speed and scalable applications, distributed caching has become a crucial technique to enhance application responsiveness. However, when multiple clients perform read and write operations concurrently, the risk of the cache becoming inconsistent with the database increases. A common approach to mitigate this issue is using expiration mechanisms such as Time-to-Live…

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Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL database provided by Microsoft Azure. It is popular for the high data availability, scalability, and low-latency access it offers. However, such frequent database access can lead to performance bottlenecks and increased costs, as Azure charges users for each database transaction. Caching is essential to optimize performance and…

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As user numbers and traffic increase, the capacity to scale effectively guarantees that your application can meet such rising demands without sacrificing performance. Especially when using ASP.NET Core Web APIs to develop modern web applications, scalability is a primary concern. A great way to accomplish this is by using a distributed cache. This approach reduces…

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One major issue for many developers using Redis is its lack of official support for Windows. Since Redis is primarily designed for Linux environments, and although there are alternatives, including running Redis on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or utilizing third-party ports, these solutions are often unstable and unsupported. This poses serious challenges for organizations…

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Achieving high performance and scalability is crucial when deploying .NET applications in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Moreover, implementing a distributed caching strategy can significantly enhance application responsiveness and reliability. This blog explores the concept of distributed caching in Azure, its benefits, and how to integrate it into your .NET applications, using NCache as an…

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Efficient session management is essential for providing a seamless and scalable user experience in ASP.NET Core applications. Nevertheless, traditional in-memory storage in sessions can lead to performance bottlenecks, especially in distributed environments where multiple servers need to access session data.  By utilizing IDistributedCache, developers can integrate a distributed caching solution like NCache to optimize ASP.NET…

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By now, it is known that the final release of the complete Framework series is .NET Framework 4.8. This means that Microsoft will cease to create new features, improvements, or updates for it. It is no wonder that Microsoft is putting a huge percentage, if not all, of its efforts into .NET 6 and later,…

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Containerization has revolutionized application deployment by ensuring consistency across various computing environments. Amazon EKS offers a fully managed Kubernetes service, simplifying the orchestration of such containerized applications. By deploying NCache within EKS, you can achieve improved performance and reduced latency for your .NET applications. NCache Deployment Architecture in EKS The integration of NCache into your…

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Python is a popular open-source language known for its dynamic typing and high-level built-in data structures. It is suited well for Rapid Application Development, data analysis, and automation, due to high-level built-in data structures along with dynamic binding and typing. However, as Python applications scale up in size, they tend to experience performance issues that…

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Write-Through caching and Write-Behind caching ensure that data modifications remain synchronized between the cache and the database. This is because efficient data management is crucial in modern applications, caching plays a pivotal role in enhancing data retrieval speeds and reducing the load on the underlying database. This blog explores these strategies in depth and demonstrates…

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As businesses scale, they increasingly rely on distributed caching solutions to manage high traffic and ensure fast data retrieval. However, one of the key challenges in implementing a distributed cache is efficiently handling complex SQL queries. Traditionally, e-commerce platforms and enterprise applications use SQL queries for product searches, transaction processing, and inventory management. But, if…

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Node.js is a very popular runtime environment.  Its popularity stems from its efficiency when building network applications and the flexibility it offers as a cross-platform, open-source JavaScript framework. However, all enterprise-level applications can further boost their performance and scalability to meet today’s demanding digital landscape. This is where distributed caching solutions like NCache come in.…

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Efficient data retrieval is fundamental for high-performance applications, with caching being an important strategy to enhance this process. While caching significantly improves access speeds and alleviates the database load, it also poses the challenge of cache inconsistency, where the cached data may become outdated with the primary database. Cache inconsistency mostly occurs when multiple applications…

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Businesses today are developing high-traffic ASP.NET Core web applications catering to countless concurrent users. In a clustered architecture with load-balanced application servers, several clients can access cache data. In these circumstances, race conditions (when two or more people try to view and edit the same shared data simultaneously) occur as multiple users try to access…

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In a distributed cache environment, it’s often crucial for certain data to be readily available in the cache as soon as the application begins execution. Typically, when a cache starts, it is empty, leading to expensive trips to the data source to fetch necessary data, which negatively impacts application performance. To address this, it’s important…

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With the increasing demand for high-performance and scalable applications, distributed caching has become a necessity. It enhances application speed and responsiveness. But when multiple clients access and modify data concurrently, the cache and database lose synchronization. This is typically addressed through expiration mechanisms like Time-to-Live (TTL) or Absolute Expiration which removes cache items after a…

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Microservices promote modularity by breaking down applications into small, loosely coupled services, with each service responsible for a particular function. The transition from monolithic applications to microservices architecture has transformed the way we develop software. This shift has improved scalability, resilience, and high availability, as each service can be developed, deployed, and managed independently. A…

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NCache integrates seemingly with the ASP.NET Core framework. With NCache, we can cache application data or responses in our ASP.NET Core applications. Let’s take a look at another NCache feature for ASP.NET Core applications: Session State Caching with ASP.NET Core. HTTP and Session State A bit of background first. HTTP is a stateless protocol. It…

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Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a popular Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework in .NET applications, that allows developers to work with databases using C# objects. However, as applications scale and the need for data access increases, relying on direct database queries can lead to performance bottlenecks. To enhance performance and support scalability, it is important…

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Performance optimization is essential for providing a seamless and efficient user experience for enterprise-level applications. ASP.NET Core, known for its speed and scalability, greatly benefits from distributed caching. By implementing distributed caching, applications can reduce database load, improve response times, and ensure scalability. In this blog, we will explore how to enhance ASP.NET Core performance…

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ASP.NET Core is an open-source framework used for building scalable web applications. It provides cross-platform capabilities and is quite popular with the microservices architecture. And, with the advent of .NET 6.0, it is only getting better in terms of performance and the development experience. However, certain bottlenecks still exist that hold back its true potential.…

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Caching refers to the process of temporarily storing frequently optimizing application performance. This reduces database load and enhances response times. To make this process even more efficient, different caching strategies exist, each serving different purposes. The most common caching strategies include: Cache-Aside (Lazy Loading): In this strategy, the application retrieves data from the database when…

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Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a widely used Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) framework that enables .NET applications to interact with databases using C# objects. However, excessive database queries can lead to performance bottlenecks, making caching a vital optimization strategy. Key Takeaways EF Core Limitations: EF Core default caching is limited to the DbContext lifespan (First-Level),…

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Microsoft is favoring ASP.NET Core over the legacy ASP.NET and plans on making all future developments in the former. Meaning, ASP.NET is slowly becoming obsolete. Hence, developers are switching to ASP.NET Core to reap the benefits of all future updates and technologies. But, the users who have been using ASP.NET for years can’t make this…

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These days many businesses require processing extreme transactional and reference data during peak times, like banks processing …

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In modern distributed applications, efficient communication between components is essential for ensuring scalability and responsiveness. The Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) messaging model provides a robust method to decouple message producers and consumers, allowing for asynchronous and scalable interactions. This blog explores the fundamentals of Pub/Sub messaging in .NET applications, its benefits, and demonstrates how to implement it…

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Real-time web applications require efficient communication between clients and servers.  ASP.NET Core SignalR simplifies this communication by enabling real-time messaging. It is widely used in chat applications, collaborative editing tools, stock trading platforms, live sports updates, and IoT dashboards, where instant data updates are critical for a smooth user experience. However, in a scenario where…

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Distributed caching has become essential for high-performance applications in today’s enterprise landscape. It reduces the need for frequent database trips, ensuring faster data access and improved scalability. Database Management Systems remain a cornerstone of businesses, whether for internal operations or external services. However, in large organizations, database performance often becomes a bottleneck, as databases cannot…

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Databases are an integral part of most .NET enterprise applications, enabling efficient data retrieval and manipulation. in high-transaction environments, relying on databases might lead to performance degradation. It does not help matters that the databases used these applications are often difficult to scale. To solve this problem, using a distributed caching solution, such as NCache…

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ASP.NET is widely used for high-traffic web applications that handle millions of users simultaneously. Organizations deploy these applications across load-balanced web farms. One important aspect of ASP.NET is the View State, a mechanism that stores pages, controls, and custom values between multiple HTTP requests between the client and the web server. However, leveraging View State…

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A cache cluster is a group of interconnected server nodes that work together to store and manage frequently accessed data for distributed applications. Such clusters are critical for scenarios where high performance and scalability is a necessity, where even slight delays result in significant financial losses. Therefore, effective cache cluster management ensures that data is…

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NCache is an in-memory distributed caching solution with a robust Java client and extensive support for various Java integrations. This blog explores how the NCache Java client elevates your application caching capability, covering essential caching operations and how to configure advanced integrations like Hibernate and Spring with ease. Whether you’re looking to boost query performance…

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We are currently living through unprecedented times. The currency of the day is data, with a never-before-seen emphasis on its collection, preservation, and analysis – with this blog focusing on data preservation. In such uncertain times, NCache aims to provide its customers with some additional control and peace of mind with its Persistence store. Persistence…

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Application performance is critical, especially in customer-facing applications where clients expect real-time responses and any delays can contribute to poor user experiences and lost business. To meet these demands, .NET developers rely on scalable and reliable caching solutions that help enhance the performance of their applications. NCache, a powerful in-memory distributed cache solution, tackles these…

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If your application is heavily reliant on a database, caching is crucial to overcome the issues associated with databases, especially in high-traffic scenarios. For online applications that use caching to speed up data retrieval, implementing a strong data replication is key to maintaining consistency and availability. Data replication is critical for creating backups of essential…

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NCache is an open-source, in-memory distributed cache that accelerates the performance of .NET and Java applications by caching frequently accessed data, ensuring fast transactional speeds and linear scalability. Its distributed architecture allows seamless scaling by adding more nodes, automatically balancing the load, and providing consistent performance as traffic and data volume increases. Unlike other caching…

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SQL Search in NCache is an in-memory querying mechanism that allows developers to search distributed cache data using SQL-92 compliant syntax. By utilizing the SearchService API, applications can perform complex criteria-based searches directly on cached objects, significantly reducing database overhead and latency. NCache’s SQL-like queries bring the familiar power of SQL search to in-memory caching,…

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If your business is heavily dependent on data, especially if it operates a high-traffic system, even the slightest chance of data loss can be alarming. In these scenarios, the idea of disaster recovery may seem overwhelming especially when dealing with transient data which is inherently volatile. Transient data can include ASP.NET sessions, arbitrary application data,…

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NCache, an in-memory distributed caching solution, known for its speed and linear scalability, is an ideal choice for your .NET, Java, Python, and Node.js applications. It allows you to cache frequently accessed data, reducing network and database trips while improving the overall performance. While NCache can work with any application stack, its significance is appreciated…

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As data continues to hold immense value, Apache Lucene has emerged as a leading full-text search engine renowned for its ability to search vast amounts of textual data using inverted indexing efficiently. However, being a standalone solution, Lucene poses scalability challenges as data volumes increase, requiring frequent index rebuilding that can significantly hamper performance. While…

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Every day, we generate and consume an increasing amount of data. For businesses, the speed of data processing impacts the decisions they make. As the demand for efficient data processing grows, our software needs to keep up with that demand. Long polling isn’t simply an alternative. Let’s look at one NCache feature, Continuous Query, designed…

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Efficient communication between distributed applications is essential for modern businesses, especially for global corporations that require real-time communication to drive critical decisions. As such, traditional messaging systems often struggle with scalability and responsiveness, causing delays. To address this, platforms have developed various solutions, one of the most effective being the Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) messaging model. Pub/Sub…

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We can put a cache server between our application and database to make our applications faster. But that’s not enough when we need to scale our applications. Let’s see two caching patterns for better performance and how NCache implements them. Scalability through Data Partitioning With data partitioning, we divide large sets of data into smaller…

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Nowadays, Cloud deployments for applications have become a common practice. One of the major reasons for this popularity is the ease of use that Cloud infrastructures are offering. Microsoft Azure is one such popular Cloud platform that offers several deployment services for its subscribers. NCache with a vision of facilitating its clients and incorporating all…

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Linux’s security, stability, and reliability have undoubtedly made it the language to use for critical applications. In fact, even Microsoft opted for it as the OS to power the Azure Cloud Computing Services. Given all this, is it any surprise that NCache (a platform most commonly employed with critical high-traffic applications for banks, airlines, and…

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As data becomes more critical to businesses, the need for real-time data processing (particularly when data is arriving in chunks or streams) and analysis is increasing at an unprecedented rate. Applications that depend on real-time data processing require a reliable method of receiving real-time notifications when data changes occur without causing performance overheads that result…

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As technology evolves, so do the business approaches associated with it. One of the most prominent examples of this evolution is the noticeable shift towards cloud service deployments. In an effort to support this growth, NCache is offering an NCache Enterprise Cloud free trial in AWS  and Azure. NCache Details NCache Docs Download NCache NCache…

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In today’s world, deploying applications using the cloud has become standard practice. One of the most well-known cloud platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers a variety of services to its subscribers. NCache takes advantage of this infrastructure with NCache Enterprise Cloud. It spins NCache servers, and your subscription being either Azure or AWS, so that you…

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NCache is a powerful performance optimization solution that ensures high availability and scalability. It provides various caching topologies, each designed to meet different needs. These topologies not only provide linear scalability but also maintain data consistency and reliability. Each topology is tailored for specific use cases—for instance, one may be ideal for smaller environments with…

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With every application under the sun providing its users with some sort of cloud deployment, it is natural to question why? Quiet simply put, cloud computing applications offer these developers the easiest approach for testing and developing products. This approach focuses on effectiveness and avoids the pitfalls associated with more traditional methods, like time-intensive builds,…

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Efficient data management necessitates the ability to quickly search for application data based on specific attributes, a need that becomes increasingly crucial as the data volume grows. Typically, databases use predefined fields for categorizing data which can also serve as indexes when caching data. However, there are times when grouping data is required based on…

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According to a recent survey by Positive Technologies, data leakage vulnerabilities and security problems affect 44% of web apps. Sensitive data is present in all web apps and data theft happens when that data is improperly secured. So, for appropriate data protection, ASP.NET Core uses cryptographic APIs, besides the encryption algorithm to protect data and…

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Modern applications typically process and generate large volumes of data. Thus, the possibility of data loss due to a single web server/data source failing is a common nightmare among software developers. However, high data availability is still achievable if all the application server nodes contain an identical copy of the data. This replication process ensures…

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We all encounter situations where we have to wait for an eternity to get a response from the database in return for the generated queries at the application server. For business-critical applications latency and delay in response are intolerable. This is where a need for an optimized caching solution arises. While caches are commonly associated…

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We are very excited to announce that Alachisoft has introduced its NCache Enterprise Cloud Software as a Service for potential customers. Using the NCache Enterprise Cloud model, users can quickly try out NCache in their application environment with its free trial for 60 days. Continue reading to find out more about the subscription plan, deployment…

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NCache is a high-performance, in-memory distributed cache designed for .NET, Java, Python, and Node.js applications. Renowned for its speed and scalability, NCache is widely used in production environments for mission-critical, user-interactive applications where high availability is essential. Its robust feature set ensures that these demanding requirements are met. These make NCache a reliable choice for…

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NCache is a key-value store. It quickly retrieves cached items by their key. But it can also search cached entries by other properties. For example, instead of searching cached products by their key, we can also search them by category, price range, and weight. Let’s learn how to index cached items to make them searchable.…

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Every enterprise nowadays requires data to manage its operations. The greatest solution for storing a well-organized collection of data is a database. Similarly, the most used computer language for storing and retrieving data in databases is SQL (Structured Query Language). In such a fast-paced modern world, it is crucial to be able to locate information quickly…

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NCache is an in-memory distributed cache for .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python. It is an extremely fast, linearly scalable cache memory store that caches application data to reduce expensive database trips. NCache, being the market leader for .NET applications, has a huge and diverse customer base with different caching needs. To meet all these different…

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NCache introduces Entry Processors to allow us to execute a function (or “processor”) against a set of caching entries on the server side. Usually, to update our cache entries, we have to “talk” to our cache server twice. Once to retrieve entries from the cache and another to update them back after processing them. But,…

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NCache makes Lucene distributed and scalable by implementing the Lucene API on top of NCache’s Distributed architecture. Starting from NCache, NCache has support for another Lucene feature: GeoSpatial Indexes. Let’s see how to use GeoSpatial Indexes with Distributed Lucene. Full-Text Searching with Distributed Lucene is divided into two phases: indexing and searching. In the indexing…

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In computing, a cache is a form of high-speed memory that stores data to avoid expensive database trips and optimize performance, especially for applications running on single server nodes. However, in load-balanced distributed systems, where requests are handled by multiple nodes, traditional caching can result in performance drops. In-memory distributed caches overcome these issues and…

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NCache has lots of features: ASP.NET Cache provider and Full-Text searching, among others. But, this time, let’s see another NCache feature: Publisher/Subscriber (Pub/Sub) messaging. Let’s learn how to implement the Pub/Sub messaging pattern with NCache. What’s Pub/Sub messaging? Pub/Sub is a messaging pattern where senders (or publishers) share messages with multiple receivers (or subscribers) through…

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Lucene is a .NET full-text search engine library that contains powerful APIs for creating full-text indexes and implementing advanced and precise search technologies into your programs. Lucene offers much more than what you would expect from other text searching engines as the choices given to the user are multiple.  It has a powerful searching algorithm…

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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. But, one challenge people face with distributed cache is how to map and store relational…

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In this era of fast and reliable application processing, everybody is opting for distributed caching to get the best performance out of their application. If your web applications attract high traffic causing extremely high transactions, then you definitely need NCache. NCache is an in-memory distributed caching solution that provides linear scalability to .NET and Java…

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The database tier based on traditional RDBMS has proven to be the biggest bottleneck in the way of achieving competitive response times for applications. This has forced the application vendors to look for alternatives that can provide improved performance. One such alternative is storing data in a distributed cache. From the available cache technologies, you…

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With the development of high transaction distributed applications, distributed caching solutions have become highly desirable to achieve performance scalability. NCache is a good choice as an in-memory distributed data store since it provides linear scalability and high availability. So far, so good, but how to ensure data integrity in such shared environments is a big…

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Most successful e-commerce businesses today have encountered slow website response times at some point. This is partly due to a paradigm shift in user preferences – more inclined towards online shopping. Therefore, traditional mechanisms have failed to sustain the influx of customer requests. With the advent of in-memory, linearly scalable distributed caching solutions like NCache,…

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Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications, reducing the delay between writing code and deploying it to production with its lightweight containers. Likewise, NCache, an extremely fast in-memory distributed cache, offers Docker Images for both Windows and Linux servers. This blog will explain how you can configure and use these images…

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Let’s assume that you have an e-commerce website that uses NCache as a distributed cache for faster performance and linear scalability. To keep an eye on the performance, NCache provides the support for native monitoring tools like PerfMon on Windows. Since Linux now also supports .NET along with the usage of NCache, therefore the need…

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Hosting web applications on cloud is the new rage. Cloud offers you dedicated servers, security, backup and storage, network accessibility, mobility, and whatnot, all this combined with the high performance, availability, and scalability that NCache brings to the table would be the perfect combination. This is why Alachisoft has launched NCache Cloud that offers you…

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We have been hearing about distributed caching market rapidly moving towards cloud computing. So, why should NCache stay behind? NCache, in this dark weather of COVID destruction, provides a silver lining to all Azure lovers in the form of NCache Cloud. NCache Cloud encapsulates the overwhelming expertise of Microsoft Azure with a fast, scalable, high-performance…

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By leveraging MongoDB Change Streams, NCache provides real-time data consistency, which eliminates the risk of stale data in high-traffic distributed environments. Mongo DB is a NoSQL, scalable, open-source, high-performance, and document-oriented database. It is one of the best NoSQL databases in the market. Using caching with Mongo DB gives applications a significant performance boost by…

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Nowadays, most of the user applications which rely on heavy database calls are incorporating distributed caching for better performance and linear scalability. To ensure optimal efficiency, users want database changes to be instantly reflected in the cache. NCache offers several techniques to keep cache data fresh and synchronized with the cache. Firstly, NCache provides Expiration, which automatically…

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The advent of distributed caching systems has easily addressed the challenges of database overload and performance lag. Today, these distributed caches can efficiently manage millions of data transactions per second. However, a significant issue remains; many enterprise-level applications need to track changes within vast amounts of data. These applications have to make critical business decisions…

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When running an e-business, delivering a seamless user experience is essential to maintaining customer satisfaction and engagement. To achieve this, it’s essential to ensure your system can handle increasing traffic efficiently and adapt to evolving demands without compromising performance. This is where distributed caching comes into play, boosting performance and scalability. NCache is such a…

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NCache, a distributed, linearly scalable and fast in-memory key-value store allows the caching of objects to reduce database trips and easily scale higher loads. Similarly, Redis is also a distributed caching solution but lacks key features like SQL & LINQ Support,  Client Cache (InProc) and Peer-to-Peer Clustering etc. For .NET Redis client applications, NCache provides…

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Modern problems require modern solutions. And the need for fast performance has always been a problem. NCache is a quick fix for your critical issues, such as performance and scalability. It works efficiently and covers all the problematic areas in your application, although caching has its primary purpose for more read-intensive applications. This blog thoroughly…

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The need for keeping a check on things, or to put it simply, monitoring things, is essential. This isn’t limited to just computers or software, but can be applied to any kind of situation. For example, a guard can’t monitor a five-story building by himself easily, but with the help of CCTV cameras, he can.…

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NCache, an in-memory distributed cache, keeps your data intact in a temporary storage for a faster experience of read and write operations. We have seen NCache do wonders with the speed when it comes to performing operations on the cache store. However, keeping NCache synchronized with the main data source is a major challenge when…

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Over the years, developers and engineers have made remarkable strides in creating innovative products. However, despite their advancements, the challenge of preventing critical data loss persists. This is where in-memory distributed caching proves invaluable, offering a powerful solution to safeguard data and enhance application performance. One might think that caching, being a temporary data store,…

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Microsoft AppFabric becoming extinct has impacted the AppFabric customers greatly as Microsoft announces no further development on AppFabric. With the retirement of AppFabric, Microsoft also recommended some alternatives for it that can be used and NCache popped as a recommended alternative by Microsoft. I have a blog written that covers the advantages of migrating your…

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When it comes to managing environments, there are two types of people in the world: those who love to type commands and those who love a GUI. NCache got both these factions covered. To monitor NCache and your deployed cache servers and bridge, you have management PowerShell tools for the typists and NCache Web Manager…

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As a developer, you must have struggled to accelerate the communication between the client and server at some point. Network overheads, delays and latency have always been of major concerns and it all comes down to one single question – How can we speed up the requests? Tons of solutions are found over the time…

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Let’s say you pay at a mart using your card. Now you are at home, haven’t gone out in a while and you receive a message from your bank stating you have debited $20000. How? What you purchased cost you a mere $120! This will entail a long process of verifications with your bank, and…

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Who doesn’t love sports? Almost everyone has a sport they follow religiously or a team they defend earnestly. But how many times has a busy schedule or an emergency at work caused you to miss a game, especially when your favorite team is playing? We’ve all been there. That’s where the concept of a leaderboard/scoreboard…

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IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core that acts as a centralized Security Token Service (STS). By integrating NCache as the underlying data provider, IdentityServer4 can handle massive loads of authentication requests by storing configuration data (clients and resources) and operational data (tokens and codes) in a distributed, high-performance cache…

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Whenever we talk about providing ease of access and manipulation of objects, the subject of Object Relational Mappers (ORMs) is bound to come up. ORMs such as Entity Framework Core and NHibernate help in managing efficient mapping of Plain Old CLR Object (POCO) instances to database information, managing associations, constraints, etc. However, using code-to-SQL functionality…

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A Split-Brain in medicine refers to a communication malfunction inside the brain, where half of the brain is unaware of the other half’s behavior. In distributed computing, Split-Brain describes a similar scenario: a loss of communication between active servers within a cluster. This leads to sub-clusters forming and preventing synchronization, potentially resulting in chaos across…

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Blazor is being adopted rapidly by organizations looking to create interactive Web UIs with .NET. It allows you to create the applications using C# instead of undergoing the hassle of JavaScript and all your server-side and client-side logic is consolidated in the .NET space. Blazor uses the ASP.NET Core SignalR implementation for messaging between client…

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NCache, as an in-memory distributed cache enhances application performance and scalability by efficiently storing data in the cache. While it’s known for speeding up data access, it’s important to understand the types of data NCache can handle. Just as databases offer flexibility in storing various data types, NCache provides a range of options for storing…

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One common nightmare among developers and software architects is their sole web server/data source crashing, losing thousands of connected clients, applications, and precious data. With the help of a distributed, load-balanced caching layer such as NCache you can make your application tier highly scalable and available. With the increase in transaction load, you can add…

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NCache is designed to deliver optimal performance for your application, and achieving this requires a caching environment that scales seamlessly and cost-effectively. Since NCache operates as an in-memory datastore, the primary concern is the limited memory available on a single physical server, followed closely by the computational limits. Beyond basic CRUD operations, NCache supports many advanced…

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Peak loads, failures, system outages are highly likely to be a part of your cache cluster and it is not something to be worried about. However, having no workaround to such situations definitely is! Fault resilience against such risk causing factors is the primary requirement of your caching cluster so that recovering from failure scenarios…

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With data caching being the primary objective of most distributed caches, it stands to reason that a cache is of no use without basic CRUD operations. Essentially, since the cache is a key-value store, these key-based CRUD operations (Create, Remove, Update, Delete) make your cache easy to access and use. To this end, since NCache…

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In everyday life, you may have left a carton of milk in the refrigerator for too long and forgotten to throw it out. As a result, you end up with stale milk taking up space, which is of no use and can be harmful if consumed. The solution in both cases is similar: throw it…

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The adage “640 KB ought to be enough for anybody” used to be widely accepted. There is some disagreement over who said it, but there is now universal agreement that no one can ever know what “enough” in computing means. Because of this, you must delete or evict some cached data when you set up…

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Data integrity is the most basic building block of providing security and protecting sensitive data from theft or breach. To prevent data tampering, client-server applications use the TLS (Transport Level Security) protocol to communicate across networks. TLS is responsible for exchanging keys, encrypting data, and authenticating message integrity, hence, establishing a secure connection. NCache is…

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Securing cached data in a multi-data center environment is paramount. There’s no denying that. But is securing data enough to ensure you have secured your cache environment? I’d beg to differ; it’s not nearly enough. Along with data security, you need to make sure your cache and server nodes are safe from unauthorized access as well.…

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If you are using an in-memory distributed cache and your application contains private and sensitive data that you want to secure, you need to ensure that your distributed cache prevents this data from unauthorized access through encryption. NCache provides a rich set of industry-standard algorithms that are nearly impossible to break. With NCache, your sensitive…

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Distributed caches are often deployed in massive data centers, where every user has direct access to the data stored in the cache or traveling over the network. This simple functionality is problematic when your application has to cache sensitive data and cannot afford to allow cache access to every other user. Let’s say that your…

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You, I, and even John next door know that machine learning has made your machines “smarter” by predicting future outcomes, using the data fed to them. ML.NET is the de facto standard in .NET for machine learning, that allows you to train models upfront and make predictions accurately. Let’s suppose you have an ML.NET application…

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For high transaction applications with complex architectures, continuously interchanging data causes a non-uniform load and delay in throughput.

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Azure Service Fabric makes the deployment, management, and packaging of scalable and reliable microservice and cloud applications effortless. It aims to provide developers with a robust platform to tackle the common challenges of building distributed cloud-based applications. NCache, a .NET native In-Memory Distributed Cache, is available to deploy within Azure Service Fabric clusters for enhanced…

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Development, deployment, and management of applications have become easier with containerization, which is why cloud deployment is becoming increasingly popular. Azure, being the best in the business, provides with its fast and user-friendly Kubernetes deployment, in the form of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). To improve the application’s performance in an Azure Kubernetes environment, consider deploying…

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Databases and caches go hand in hand and have been in a close association for a long time now. Caches as the middle tier reduce pressure on your databases by keeping your data in the cache for faster processing. NCache is an in-memory distributed caching solution for your .NET and Java applications. For years, NCache…

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Today’s applications are highly transactional and can scale for high transactions by running in a load-balanced, multi-server deployment. At the same time, many of these applications need to run in multiple data centers. This could be done for disaster recovery, where one active data center has disaster recovery as a passive data center that is…

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Imagine you have an e-commerce business that uses a distributed cache such as NCache for faster response times. During the holiday season, your cache cluster expects to serve thousands of connected clients. However, instead, your Customer Support team is bombarded with complaints about website downtime and slow user experience. What went wrong? Well, it’s simple.…

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The rise of container technology has revolutionized application development, with Kubernetes leading the charge in container orchestration across multiple machines. Kubernetes is an open-source platform that handles the orchestration of your containers on multiple machines. One of these Kubernetes platforms, Red Hat OpenShift provides users with the ability to auto-scale cloud applications. It has application containers…

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In high-transaction server environments, choosing the optimal communication channel for your applications is crucial. The Publisher/Subscriber (Pub/Sub) model is a popular choice for facilitating such communication. In this highly decoupled model, multiple clients publish messages as part of a message bus or intermediary communication channel, called a topic. Similarly, multiple clients can subscribe to these…

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Lucene is an efficient and powerful search engine that supports full-text searching in .NET. It makes text searching easy and provides you with a rich set of APIs, for fast and user-friendly text searching techniques. Additionally, there is one thing that Lucene does not offer, and that is scalability. Lucene applications usually write data on…

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Azure Cosmos DB is the new NoSQL cloud-based database solution that has gained a lot of popularity in recent times. Everyone knows that using caching with Cosmos DB boosts application performance and optimizes transaction costs by reducing trips to the database. However, caching Cosmos DB data in a distributed cache can lead to the creation…

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Many ASP.NET applications today serve high-traffic environments, catering to tens of thousands of users. These applications often struggle with performance issues caused by slow database access, particularly when network traffic is heavy. This latency is becoming increasingly problematic as more users access these applications. To resolve this performance constraint, ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core provides a…

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A Major highlight in this edition is that NCache now supported on Linux as well along with Docker Container images for Linux and Windows Nano Servers.

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ASP.NET is the foremost choice among software developers looking to create high-traffic web applications. The ASP.NET application tier can handle thousands of users and millions of requests daily due to its scalable nature. Such high-traffic applications are usually deployed in load-balanced web farms where load balancers distribute user requests across multiple web servers. While the…

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Clustering and caching in ASP.NET Core has never been easier with release of NCache 4.9 SP.

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.NET Core Support is one of the core aspects of this release. NCache now provides a totally native .NET Core clients that can run both on Linux and Windows. NCache ASP.NET Core session provider also received enhancements and now supports IDistributedCache interface in ASP.NET Core. NCache team has also implemented very easy to use EF Core 2.0 Extension Methods to allow you cache application data that you are fetching through EF Core 2.0.

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NCache is 100% native .NET and is integrated with the .NET tool stack including Visual Studio, Entity Framework and NHibernate so users do not need to turn to java-based solutions. Migration from AppFabric is easy with the free NCache AppFabric wrapper.

NCache Cloud is available as Professional edition. Professional is functionally closer to Azure Redis cache, although with more features. NCache cloud pricing is affordable, competitive and includes free client licenses and optional technical support during business hours or 24/7.

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With market withdrawal of AppFabric, the .NET industry remains in the lurch for an in-memory distributed cache to emerge as a contender. While a few alternatives have come forward, none offer as complete of a solution as NCache. NCache is an open-source in-memory distributed cache that provides users with an exceedingly fast and linearly scalable…

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ASP.NET web applications, .NET web service applications, and other .NET server applications need to handle extreme transaction loads without slowing down. While the application tier can scale linearly, the data storage and database tier often cannot, creating bottlenecks hampering the overall application scalability. To address these issues, simple in-memory distributed key-value stores like Memcached and…

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The world’s first implementation of Big Data in-memory processing for native .NET means:

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With Microsoft discontinuing the AppFabric support, the .NET industry faces the challenge of finding a robust, high-performance in-memory distributed cache. Fortunately, NCache provides a powerful solution. It is an open-source, scalable distributed cache designed for .NET, Java, Node.js, and Python applications. It offers exceptional scalability and speed, significantly enhancing performance. Undoubtedly, NCache is a proven…

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In the words of Iqbal Khan, a technology evangelist at Alachisoft, "Visual Studio is far and away the favorite development environment of .NET developers. Our goal with this release was to ensure that developers do not have to leave their favorite IDE to use NCache and also NCache-related things are auto-configured for them inside Visual Studio."

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NCache is now released under the Apache 2.0 Open Source license, giving the .NET developer community unrestricted access to the industry's oldest and most popular Distributed Cache.

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Redis is an in-memory key-value store developed in C/C++ with clients for various programming languages like .NET, Java, and C. It has features to tackle critical issues such as eviction, Pub/Sub, and more. However, it falls short in some fundamental aspects. And if these missing components present a problem for you or your business, NCache…

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In the world of web applications, managing the client-side state effectively is crucial for both performance and security. ASP.NET View State is a common mechanism used to maintain this state across various page requests, but it can introduce significant challenges. Especially, when deploying applications on platforms like Microsoft Azure. In this blog, we will discuss…

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Microsoft ASP.NET Output Cache provides functionality to cache rendered content of ASP.NET pages or user controls for a specified duration. This allows your ASP.NET application to serve all subsequent requests from the cache instead of re-rendering and re-execution of a page. You add the <% @OutputCache %> directive on the page to use ASP.NET Output Cache.…

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Some of the enhancements include client side error logging, accessing the cache servers through a firewall/router with the help of port mapping, email alerts for local and client caches, viewing client caches in NCache Manager, support for Windows Server 2012, and more.

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These days, many companies are running both .NET and Java applications in their enterprise environment.  Often these applications need to share data with each other at runtime. The most common way they do that today is by storing the data in the database and having the other application poll and look for it. Some people…

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Microsoft Azure provides a platform for ASP.NET applications in the cloud. Very often, these applications are high transaction and mission-critical in nature. Therefore, it is very important that these applications are scalable and result in no data loss if a web server goes down at any time. NCache Details             …

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Many high-traffic ASP.NET applications in Microsoft Azure are deployed over multiple dedicated regions to handle geographically separated traffic. In these situations, the load balancer sends traffic to the region closest to the user for faster response times. In this scenario, you may run into a situation where you have to redirect some of your traffic…

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NHibernate is a popular object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for .NET applications that aims to simplify database programming. Therefore, many high-traffic applications use it. Unfortunately, these applications face database scalability bottlenecks. To tackle this issue, it provides its client applications with a caching infrastructure (an in-memory cache store) to prevent exhausting their databases with such a…

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ASP.NET is renowned for its role in developing high-traffic web applications, that are often deployed across multiple geographical locations. Such deployments serve dual purposes: ensuring the application is prepared for disaster recovery scenarios with an active-passive site setup, where the passive site takes over if the active site fails. And, optimizing regional traffic by placing…

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Today, web applications use distributed caches to boost application performance and scalability by caching frequently used data to reduce expensive database trips. These distributed caches span and synchronize multiple cache servers to let you scale linearly. A good distributed cache usually has a Cache Dependency feature to let you invalidate cached items when a cached…

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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. But, in .NET Framework 4.0, .NET 4.0 Cache is added under System.Runtime.Caching namespace for all…

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Most applications today need to handle extreme transaction loads. But, databases are unable to scale to this extent, becoming a bottleneck. To resolve this issue, organizations utilize In-Memory Distributed Caching solutions like NCache to achieve Linear Scalability and eliminate SQL Database bottlenecks. A distributed cache typically contains two types of data, transactional data, and reference…

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ASP.NET Output Cache, (provided by Microsoft), allows you to store an in-memory copy of the rendered content of the ASP.NET page. This allows ASP.NET to serve subsequent user requests from the cached copy instead of re-executing the page, which can be resource-intensive due to heavy database calls. By utilizing the ASP.NET Output Cache, you can…

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It is a fact of life that organizations have different applications using different versions of the same classes because they were developed at different points in time and are unable to keep up. It is also a fact of life that these applications often need to share data with each other. You can do this…

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In the high-traffic applications prevalent these days, distributed caching is essential for achieving performance and scalability. By serving cached data from an in-memory store, distributed caches alleviate the burden on your database servers, offering faster data access and reduced latency. Some distributed caches even support SQL-Like queries, enabling you to query cached data like traditional…

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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 version of the same class for backward compatibility and cost reduction. The most common way…

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In the fast-paced world of modern enterprises, real-time applications are essential for processing and responding to data the moment it’s generated. These high-traffic systems require instant updates, where even a brief delay can result in substantial financial losses. The key challenge in such scenarios is ensuring dataset changes are immediately reflected where relevant. Unfortunately, depending…

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Many organizations today use different .NET and Java technologies to develop various high-traffic applications. Thus, they need to share data between such technologies at runtime. Such data sharing is possible through databases, but is slow and doesn’t scale well. Alternatively, using in-memory distributed caches as a shared data store between multiple applications is much slower…

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In the realm of Java web applications and especially Java Server Pages (JSP) applications, managing user sessions efficiently is crucial for maintaining a seamless user experience. JSP applications rely on the Session object to manage multiple HTTP requests and maintain user state. While a single web server can handle sessions easily, a multi-server load-balanced web…

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Spring is a lightweight, dependency injection and aspect-oriented development container and framework for Java. It reduces the overall complexity of J2EE development and provides high cohesion and loose coupling. Because of the benefits Spring provides, it is used by a lot of developers for creating high traffic small to enterprise level applications. But these high…

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Hibernate is an Object-Relational Mapping library for Java language. It provides you mapping from Java classes to database table and reduces the overall development cycle. Because of benefits Hibernate provides, more and more high transactional applications are developed using Hibernate. Here is an example of Hibernate in a Java application. But, these high traffic Hibernate…

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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 always ensure that it is kept synchronized with your database. Without this, the distributed cache…

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Serialization transforms an object into a byte-stream so it can be moved out of a process either for persistence or to be sent to another process. And de-serialization is the reverse process that transforms a byte-stream back into an object. And, unlike a stand-alone cache, a distributed cache must serialize objects so it can send…

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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 high traffic applications are facing scalability problems. Although the application-tier level is scalable, their database…

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Enhancing both performance and scalability, distributed caching is popular for developing high-transaction applications. However, most distributed caches only provide (key, value) Hash table interfaces for application use. This means you must know the key of the cached item to fetch it, but this is not always possible. Additionally, you might need to search for data…

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Distributed caching has become a popular way to enhance application performance and scalability. Developers are leveraging this approach to achieve significant improvements in their applications. However, this approach brings several challenges, one of the most important being ensuring that the cached data is always synchronized with the database. This synchronization is crucial because the cache…

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If your ASP.NET application has just a few users, you might not notice any performance problems. However, as user load increases, ASP.NET performance can drop significantly. It might even grind to a halt if enough load is put on it. And, ironically, all of that happens just when your business is seeing more activity so…

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A distributed cache is essential for any application that demands high performance during extreme transaction loads. In-memory distributed caching outperforms traditional databases and offers linear scalability by allowing you to easily add more servers to the cache cluster, something databases struggle with. However, one challenge remains: distributed caches are often hosted on remote servers, meaning…

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ASP.NET has grown significantly in popularity as a technology for web applications, with more developers now using it to create high-traffic applications. To handle the higher traffic, these applications are deployed in load-balanced web farms where you can add more servers as your traffic load increases. But a problem occurs; the database and your data…

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ASP.NET has come to age with numerous high-traffic mission-critical ASP.NET applications. That means you cannot afford unscheduled downtime for the entire website or any particular servers with users getting bumped out. These downtimes cost you dearly in lost revenue and a bad reputation that is hard to fix. ASP.NET Session State storage, if not handled…

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