Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

Caching is a state management strategy that long has been used in applications to store relatively stable and frequently accessed data for faster access. It helps you to boost your application’s ...

Object caching is an important piece in the design and development of Web portals. In a typical Web portal application, we need the frequently accessed data in a JVM's memory, but, at the same time, ...

Smart developers live by the “buy before build” philosophy, but when it comes to improving data retrieval performance via a cache, build has been the only available option. Enter .NET’s Cache class, ...

I have several collections (<I>Lists</I>) that I need to cache on an application level. In Asp.Net caching was built-in, and I could do something like <B>Cache.Add(MyCollection);</B><BR><BR>How can I ...

Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Computer scientists have invented a ...

Dubbed Amazon ElastiCache, AWS said Web apps get a performance boost by letting customers retrieve information from a fast, managed, in-memory caching system in the cloud, instead of relying on slower ...

A logo for SIEVE, created by Yazhuo Zhang, portrays hotter objects in shades of red and colder ones in shades of blue. Zhang also designed a web site for SIEVE, including a motion graphic ...