When: 6:00 PM.
Where: Benchmark Learning (4510 West 77th Street - Edina, MN 55435) MAP
Everything You Wanted to Know About Velocity But Were Afraid To Cache
Microsoft's AppFabric Caching (aka Velocity) offers a distributed caching solution, not unlike the popular "memcached" open source library. It allows you to increase scalability and performance by caching data physically (and logically) closer to the consumer. It can help you dramatially increase responsiveness of your apps and services, as well as relieve pressure on back-end resources. Come and here about the concepts and terminology, as well as deployment considerations, typical usage patterns, pitfalls, and more.
Speaker: Scott Colestock lives and works in the Twin Cities. He is a partner at Marcato (marcatopartners.com), which focuses on delivering agile coaching services. He has consulted on the Microsoft stack for 15 years, and is a BizTalk MVP, performance engineering guy, and "Team Foundation Server + Scrum" resource.
