Yesterday, I had a talk with one college about cache mechanism. The true is that Microsoft has a lot of cache mechanism and when we talk about Windows Azure we have so different mechanism that there are times when we don’t know what the best cache mechanism for us is. We will talk about 3 times of cache mechanism that are supported by Windows Azure: Windows Azure Appfabric Cache (specials service defined by Windows Azure) Co-located Role Caching (in-memory cache – resources are shared between cache and hosted applications) Cache Worker role (dedicate role used only for cache) From my perspective we have a lot of options. What we should know from the begging about Windows Azure Appfabric Cache is that be used in combination with Windows Azure of course, but from what I saw until now we cannot have a combination between co-located role caching and Windows Appfabric Azure Cache or Cache Worker role and Windows AzureAppfabric Cache. Why we cannot combine them? Because the last two cache me...
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