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 ...

Memcached or Redis? It’s a question that nearly always arises in any discussion about squeezing more performance out of a modern, database-driven web application. When performance needs to be improved ...

Object caching provides a mechanism to store frequently accessed data in memory, minimizing the calls to back-end database, and resulting in significant improvement in the application performance. It ...

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 ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Enhancements to server and ...