By CarpDeus on 4/14/2009 9:21 AM
Microsoft has finally released Community Technology Preview 3 of their "distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, high-performance applications." And, as a caching guy who will be speaking about Velocity in Vegas in a few short weeks, I've been waiting for the release, which I played with this past weekend. First things first, though. I use memcached at work, a blazingly fast, in-memory, distributed cache. One of the key differences between memcached and Velocity is that Velocity is a "cache platform," a phrase which brings to mind unwieldy to begin with. Then, during the install, we see this dialog:
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