Distributed caches, generally, are key-value stores that allow basic get, put and delete operations to store, retrieve, and update cached data. These key-based operations aka CRUD (Create, Remove, Update, Delete) or Basic Operations are what make your cache easy to use, extremely fast, and scalable. Let’s say that I have an e-commerce application that requires…
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.…
Did you hear about eBay using MongoDB as their primary database? Now, why would a multinational e-commerce firm like eBay use MongoDB and not a traditional RDBMS? It’s because MongoDB has been a hot topic among the developers for its distributed key-value store and document-oriented NoSQL features. And if eBay is using it, then I’m…
The development, deployment, management of applications has become easier with the introduction of containerization, which is why cloud deployment is gaining increasing popularity. Azure, being the best in the business, provides the fastest and easiest to use Kubernetes deployment in the form of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). To improve application’s performance in Azure Kubernetes environment,…
The introduction of container technology has improved the ease of application development. Kubernetes is an Opensource platform and it handles the orchestration of your containers on multiple machines. Red Hat OpenShift is a container platform by Red Hat that provides an auto-scaling cloud application platform. It is built around application containers that are powered by…
Distributed caching is becoming popular with every passing day as it improves application performance and provides scalability. And with the need for a fast and scalable method, people are caching more and more data into the cache. The greater the application’s performance, the greater the number of client applications is going to be. This all…
In an environment where multiple high transaction server applications need to communicate with each other, finding the best communication channel for them is important. A publisher/subscribe model is one of the most popular ways when it comes to providing a communication platform for your applications. We all know what these mediums have in common; multiple…
Lucene is an efficient and powerful search engine which provides support for full text searching in .NET. It makes text searching easy and provides you with a rich set of API when it comes to fast and user friendly techniques for text searching. With that being said, there is one thing that Lucene does not…
As data has lately been coined as “the new currency”, Apache Lucene has gained traction as a popular full-text search engine, widely used in applications to incorporate flexible text search over huge amounts of textual data. Lucene uses inverted indexing, drastically cutting down the time to find documents related to a particular term. However, it…
