{"id":453,"date":"2011-09-28T17:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.6.175.134\/~ricvilla\/?p=453"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:27:24","slug":"windows-azure-appfabric-caching-transactions-and-update-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure AppFabric Caching transactions and update modes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While talking to a startup company today, they asked me about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, trying to replace a Redis self-managed deployment. The conversation steered specifically towards atomic transactions and update modes. I found a really good white paper from Scott Seely that talks about the two update patterns supported: optimistic and pessimistic. The main difference between the two is that the latter uses locks, the former doesn&#8217;t. In addition to this topic, the articles touches on cache security, expiration, and how to properly manage this service in the cloud. It can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9776229\">Architecting Applications to use Windows Azure AppFabric Caching<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, please also visit <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/gg602420.aspx#CACHING_FAQ\">this page<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While talking to a startup company today, they asked me about the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service, trying to replace a Redis self-managed deployment. The conversation steered specifically towards atomic transactions and update modes. I found a really good white paper from Scott Seely that talks about the two update patterns supported: optimistic and pessimistic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,16,152],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","tag-appfabric","tag-azure","tag-caching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ricardovillalobos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}