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Application Performance Optimization Replication

Application Performance Optimization – Replication I have been talking about Sharding as a technique for improving application performance. Sharding distributes your data across multiple servers with the intention to allow multiple server to server requests for data. Replication is another technique that is a close cousin to sharding. Replication is a term that is well understood for Relational database engineers. […]

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Application Optimization Techniques – Cache

Application Optimization Techniques – Cache If you haven’t picked up on the trend of the recent topics, I have been looking at different application optimization techniques. We looked at sharding as a way to take advantage of multiple CPUs to handle data persistence to a physical disk. Today I wanted to introduce the concept of Cache. We all know Cache […]