Application Server Caching

From: Ryan <ryan.gaffuri_at_cox.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:14:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005DCC9E.20040114141425@fatcity.com>

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I heard a presentation from a front end performance analyst last night = from www.tangasol.com (im not associated with them at all). He was = pretty impressive.

He argued that accessing the database is expensive. He also argued in = favor of caching data at the application server level. Have any of you = worked with this? What are your opinions? His opinion was that people go = back to the database to ask the same question way too often and cause a = botteneck, if you can cache these frequently asked questions at the = front end, it will significantly scale better.=20

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