The Need for Speed - EpiCenter 2010

The Need For Speed A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Caching with Velocity Windows Server AppFabric Phil Pursglove @philpursglove http://philpursglove.blogspot.com

Agenda • What is AppFabric? • Why a Distributed Cache? • Configuring a client • Configuring a server • Managing a cache • Concurrency • High availability / load balancing

Caching Review • .NET 1.1 – ASP.NET Cache • .NET 2.0 – SqlCacheDependency – Enterprise Library Caching Application Block • .NET 4.0 – System.Runtime.Caching assembly – AppFabric

What is AppFabric? • A combination of two projects: – A distributed cache • One logical cache shared across a number of physical servers • Already being used by: – MSDN Forums. Xbox Live, MSN • An ASP.NET session state provider • In .NET 4.0, a cache provider – A workflow host • V1 released to web 4th June – Servers must be .NET 4.0, clients can be .NET 3.5/4.0

Why a Distributed Cache? • Bigger cache – Many physical servers contribute to one logical cache • Increased throughput – Many servers available to fulfil requests • High availability – Multiple servers = fault tolerance

What Data Can I Cache In AppFabric? • Any serializable .NET object – Reference Data (Shared Read) • e.g. Product categories – Activity Data (Exclusive Write) • e.g. Shopping Basket – Resource Data (Read and Write) • e.g. product stock data

Configuring the AppFabric Client • Two assembly references to add: – Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Client.dll – Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.Core.dll • Cache hosts can be hard-coded or in web.config/app.config • Clients – Routing vs Simple – Local caches

Using AppFabric • Add/Remove • Concurrency – Optimistic • Version-based – Pessimistic • Lock-based • Tags • Regions – Live inside a cache – Use for a set of logically related cached items e.g. Products – Tie a group of cached objects to a specific node 

Configuring an AppFabric Server • Cluster configuration can be held: – On a network share (XML Provider) – In a SQL Server DB (SQL Provider) • Integrated Security only  – AppFabric servers must be inside a domain

Managing An AppFabric Cluster • Powershell integration – Can start/stop a whole cluster or individual servers – Create new named caches • But not regions  – Get cache statistics • MDCAdmin tool – WPF app sitting on top of Powershell

Summary • AppFabric brings the cloud inside your organisation! • Distributed caching is a powerful way to bring scalability to your applications – Throughput – High availability

Questions? @philpursglove http://philpursglove.blogspot.com http://www.philippursglove.com/Velocity

References • V1 Download – http://tinyurl.com/appfabricdownload • Documentation on MSDN – http://tinyurl.com/msdnappfabric • Velocity team blog – http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity – http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint • AppFabric blog for IT Pros – http://blogs.technet.com/appfabric/ • TechEd videos – http://tinyurl.com/velocityteched • Mix 09 video – http://tinyurl.com/velocitymixvideo • Mix 10 video – http://tinyurl.com/velocitymix10video • ARCCast Video – http://tinyurl.com/velocityscotthavideo • ScottHa on Velocity – http://tinyurl.com/velocityhanselminutes • Deep Fried Bytes on AppFabric – http://tinyurl.com/deepfriedappfabric

References • AppFabric coverage on StackOverflow – http://tinyurl.com/stackoverflowvelocity – http://tinyurl.com/stackoverflowappfabric • DotNetRocks – http://tinyurl.com/dotnetrocksappfabric • Other .NET distributed caches – NCache - http://tinyurl.com/ncache – Memcached - http://tinyurl.com/smoe – Oracle Coherence – http://tinyurl.com/oraclecoherence – SharedCache – http://codeplex.com/sharedcache • Extensions Project – http://tinyurl.com/mscacheext • Admin Tool – http://mdcadmintool.codeplex.com/

The Need for Speed - EpiCenter 2010

by Phil Pursglove on Jun 10, 2010

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