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As enterprise computing enters the brave new world of service-oriented architecture (SOA), it becomes more and more important to seek new ways to describe, publish, and discover your services. The Web ...

However, databases alone and cloud-based services, like serverless functions, that access them were not designed to handle ...

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Distributed caches are used to improve the performance and scalability of applications. Typically, a distributed cache is shared by multiple application servers. In a distributed cache, the cached ...

ASP.NET has become a highly popular technology for developing Web applications. A large number of these ASP.NET applications need to scale to accommodate the growing number of transactions and traffic ...

Alachisoft, the makers of the NCache Distributed Cache for .NET, earlier this month said that it has open sourced the tool, which is now available through GitHub. ".NET developers finally have ...

In distributed memory systems, not all cores or processors have the same access to memory; see Figure 4.7. Memory is local to a particular core or processor, with only that processor having direct ...

Caching is a quick and easy way to save roundtrips between your application and where you store your data. However, it’s not as easy as just snapping a map into your application – to really leverage a ...