Distributed Caching with Iqbal Khan

.NET Rocks!

• Episode: Distributed Caching with Iqbal Khan
• Website: .NET Rocks!
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• Duration: 00:50:00
• Published: 2016-10-12 06:00

What role does distributed caching play in applications today? Carl and Richard sit down with Iqbal Khan to talk about nCache, an open source product built to do distributed caching in the .NET world. The conversation starts out with the traditional role of a distributed cache - state storage for a large scaling websites. It's never as simple as it sounds! From there, Iqbal dives into comparing caching to noSQL stores and RDBMS - they can all have a role in your application. The discussion then turns to more complex challenges around using distributed caches for map-reduce problems, and so on. Caching can do a lot!