[MADdotNET] Presentation Meeting TOMORROW - Wed October 5th - "The Ins and Outs of Caching in the Cloud"

[Lance Larsen]

Greetings all!  October came up quickly -- but we have beautiful weather to bring us into it...  And we have "beautiful cloud" code to bring us in as well -- with a very special speaker - Scott Seely - Microsoft MVP, Regional Director and former-Microsoft WCF developer!  Very few better than Scott to talk Cloud - so come out and see his presentation tomorrow.

Also, don't forget about the .NET lunch on Wed 10/12 at alt-n-bach -- great .NET talk and great food on top of that!

No ALL.NET meeting this month -- so we'll see everyone next month on November 2nd.

The Ins and Outs of Caching in the Cloud

Presentation Meeting: Wednesday, October 5th

The Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service provides a scalable cache for use in Windows Azure applications. In general, it is just a distributed, out of process cache. As such, it provides a key-value store that applications can query to retrieve, store, update, or remove data. Users can consume the cache explicitly or implicitly. In explicit usage, the cache provides the ability to ignore contention issues with a blind save to the store. One can also implement optimistic and pessimistic writer locks as well as single insert semantics. Typically, an application that explicitly uses the cache uses the cache aside pattern: look for data in the cache; if the data is there, use it; if not, lookup the data and populate the cache. Implicit users of the cache purchase a cache and then use a service that somehow integrates with the cache. In ASP.NET, developers can choose to store session state as well as page output in the cache.

Bio: Scott Seely is the president of Friseton, LLC (www.friseton.com). From 2002 to 2006, Scott was a developer on the WCF/Indigo team at Microsoft. Today, he is a Microsoft Regional Director in Chicago where he helps lead the Lake County .NET Users� Group, organize Code Camps, and he speaks at user groups throughout the region. His community involvement has earned him a Microsoft MVP Award for Connected Systems.

Where: Herzing University Madison ( 5218 East Terrace Drive, Madison )

When: 5:30 - 6:00: Networking | 6:00 - 8:00: Presentation and Pizza