Ok, every now and then I search for ‘Greg’ in Google, just to see where I am.  Today I’m up to #40, behind sites like Dharma & Greg and Greg the Bunny.  :-)  But the one that caught my eye was #43, which was for Greg Ray.  He is an IRL driver (a pretty famous [...]

After writing a bit the other day on server farm caching, I noticed an article in December’s MSDN Magazine titled “Use Data Caching Techniques to Boost Performance and Ensure Synchronization for Your Web Services”.  I read it this morning over a bagel…Basically the article describes a N x N cross-linked notification mechanism for cache coherency [...]

I’ve been reading about what sounds like a super-cool product – Connectix Virtual PC.  It’s similar to VMWare, in that you can create virtual machines and install different operating systems.  Great tools – especially for those who must develop and test software for multiple platforms.  But what really caught my eye was this feature:“Undoable Drives [...]

Justin is discussing caching in a multi-server environment, which I wanted to comment on.First, there is the question of what data is good to cache.  Justin mentions a possible rule of thumb:Let’s assume you have some data that is updated 1 time out of every 1000 reads. That’s a good candidate for caching in my [...]

Lots of comments on my previous post.  Ingo says:But what happens, if you later decide that you need distributed TX, probably because another method wants to integrate the addition of a new customer with a post to a message queue? This wouldn’t be possible using the code you’ve shown. Right, obviously my example only works with a single RM, and it [...]