ASP.NET web applications, .NET web service applications, and other .NET server applications need to handle extreme transaction loads without slowing down. Although their application tier scales linearly, the data storage and database tier does not scale and therefore becomes a bottleneck. As a result, the entire application cannot scale. Originally, simple in-memory distributed key-value stores…
Update: Microsoft extended the AppFabric support to April 11th, 2017. Additionally, they offered extended support until April 12th, 2022. However, the extension was only applicable for AppFabric 1.1 and not for 1.0. You can read more about their decision on their product life cycle page. NCache Details Download NCache Edition Comparison With AppFabric’s market withdrawal, the…
Some of the very basic needs for .NET applications to stay competitive in today’s market are to be extremely responsive and scalable. The bottleneck in the way of achieving these benchmarks is your relational database. This is a two fold bottleneck, first the reads from disk are very inefficient and time consuming. Secondly, you cannot…
Looking for Appfabric Alternatives? Today’s applications need to scale and handle extreme data loads due to explosion of web technologies and Internet of Things. The biggest bottleneck in the way of achieving this is the data tier with relational databases. The need of the hour is to be able to make this data available to…
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…
ASP.NET View State is a client side state management mechanism, which is used to save page and control values. ASP.NET View State is a hidden field on the page as an encoded Base64 string. It is sent to client as part of every response and is returned to the server by the client as part…
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.…
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…
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 …