It's more administrative - particularly getting it set up right to start with. The code-side of things is very straightforward indeed. Took about 30 minutes to get our web servers talking to it.
Cheers, Chris. 2009/2/10 Davy Brion <[email protected]>: > Chris, > > these nuances that require mastering... do you mean they can be taken care > of by the CacheProvider for Velocity, or is it something you need to keep in > mind in your application code? > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:35 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Feb 9, 8:49 am, Henning <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a web-based application, which is served on a couple of load- >> > balanced web-servers. To boost performance I would like to enable >> > caching. But what would happen if data is being written to the DB on >> > one of the web-servers, how do the other server know to drop their >> > cached instances? What would be the best practice? >> >> Please note that memcached is NOT a true distributed cache. It's a >> dumb cache which uses distributed hashing with no redundancy. If your >> memcache fails, so does your application unless you code around it. >> Memcache is a good piece of kit, but it requires some thinking rather >> than blind application. >> >> http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/FAQ#How_is_memcached_redundant? >> >> We've been using Velocity CTP2 and NH2 together successfully. >> Velocity is a distributed, shared cache and we run it across several >> servers in a clustered arrangement with failover and redundancy. >> >> Velocity: >> http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity/ >> >> Cache provider: >> >> http://nhcontrib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nhcontrib/trunk/src/NHibernate.Caches.Velocity/ >> >> Velocity /is/ a bit cranky (to be expected for a CTP) but when you >> master its nuances, it's a really nice and stable bit of kit. It >> should go RTM soon. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Chris. >> >> > > > > -- > Davy Brion > http://davybrion.com > > > > -- Chris Smith http://www.chrisjsmith.me.uk/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nhusers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
