The database should always be the bottleneck in any large scale web application. As such, it is becoming increasingly important to minimize concurrency and to eek out every last bit of performance from the database.
There are a set of techniques for improving concurrency in sql code. The one I have personally seen [...]
First the problem. You have a feed or a web page that changes infrequently and you know when it becomes invalid. The classic pattern here is a blog feed or a friendfeed feed. These feeds are great cache candidates i.e. cache it and then invalidate the cache when a new post is added. [...]
REST is all the rage and so as we start to read and actually use the specification that powers the internet it appears that practice does not follow theory.
I wanted to cache a web page generated by one of our products. I wanted to cache it in the browser and in a reverse proxy and [...]