Today we do everything on the web — work, shop, socialize. And some companies look to protocols and data streams to optimize those online experiences. The Web's days of innocence -- where it was just ...

Memory is a constant bottleneck for large, busy applications. It is also the area in web development where the most abuse occurs and where the most benefit may be gained. In some cases, effective ...

Danny Ayers has an interesting post detailing why and how caching can be used on the Web to meet scaling requirements for Web 2.0 services. Danny wrote: "If the Web is the platform, then as much of ...

Web caching is the practice of storing frequently requested - but infrequently changed - pages, images and other Web objects on a nearby server or even a user's PC. Information from computers all over ...

ScaleArc, a provider of database load balancing software, has announced support for automatic cache invalidation, providing a transparent ACID-compliant caching mechanism for dynamic data. The ...