Accelerate your ColdFusion Applications using Caching

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Accelerate your ColdFusion Applications using Caching
S V PAVAN KUMAR
sanniset@adobe.com
October 2014

Agenda
 Caching Overview
 CF Ehcache Implementation
 CF Cache layout
 Application specific caching
 Query Caching
 ORM Caching
 Template & Object Caching
 Distributed Caching
 <cflogin> cache replication demo

Cache
During experiments, Many bird
species store peanuts in a cache for
later retrieval. In the wild, these birds
store acorns and insects.
-Wikipedia

Cache
A Simple Key/Value Pair
Key Value
USA Washington D.C
India New Delhi
England London
Japan Tokyo

How Cache Works ?
Key Value
Key1 Value1
Key2 Value2
Key3 Value3
Key4 Value4
Application
Cache
Hit
Database ComputationNetwork

How Cache Works ?
Miss
Key Value
Key1 Value1
Key2 Value2
Key3 Value3
Key4 Value4
Application
Cache
Cache -
Aside

How Cache Works ?
Miss Key Value
Key1 Value1
Key2 Value2
Key3 Value3
Key4 Value4
Application
Cache
Read -
Through
Sync/ Async

Simply
Sacrifice memory for latency
reduction

Eviction Strategies
 Manually deleting
 Expiration
 Expire after 2 Hours
 Expire at Oct 18th, 2014
 When Cache memory is Full
 Delete using FIFO | LRU | LFU
 Spill to Disk
EhCache does not remove expired elements immediately from
memory.
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Cache Bootstrapping
 How to pre-load the cache on startup
 From Disk store
 From a peer cache node
 From a central Cache server (e.g. Terracotta Server)
 Start Empty, fill later (Cold Cache)

Cache Efficiency
Caches are not a panacea.

ColdFusion Caches
 Query Cache
 ORM Cache
 Session level
 2nd Level Cache
 Template
 Page
 Fragment
 Object Cache
 <Cflogin> Cache

Overview
 Industry Standard Caching Provider
 Default cache provider for ColdFusion since CF 9
 Various cache algorithms FIFO, LRU and LFU
 Better control over cache through config
 Disk persistence
 Cache replication
 Distributed caching support
 Monitoring
 Thread Safe

CF Cache layout
Server Level Cache ManagerApplication level Cache Manager
Application level Cache
Manager
Application level Cache Manager
QUERY
TEMPLATE
OBJECT
QUERY
TEMPLATE
OBJECT
QUERY
TEMPLATE
OBJECT

Application Specific Caching
 Added in CF 10
 If enabled, caching is done at application level
 Set this.cache.configfile in Application.cfc
 Absolute: this.cache.configfile = "c:/myApp/ehcache.xml"
 Relative to Application.cfc: this.cache.configfile = "ehcache.xml"
 Server level Ehcache configuration file ehcache.xml can be found at
<Install_location><Instance name>lib

Default Cache Regions
 TEMPLATE
 OBJECT
 QUERY
 Default cache names will be prefixed with applicationName (when app
specific caching is not enabled)
 <App Name>TEMPLATE
 <App Name>OBJECT
 <App Name>QUERY

Custom Cache Regions
 Using ehcache.xml in <CF Instance Name>/lib (Hard Coding)
 cacheRegionNew() to create on-fly cache regions
 All the caches supporting cacheRegion
 All the cache functions supporting region argument
 Custom cache region can contain any type of Data

Cache Region Properties
 Cache region properties
 retrieved using cacheGetProperties()
 set using cacheSetProperties()
<cache
name=“myCache"
maxElementsInMemory="1000"
eternal="false"
timeToIdleSeconds="720"
timeToLiveSeconds="720"
overflowToDisk="true"
maxElementsOnDisk="100000"
diskPersistent="true"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"
/>

Cache Regions: CRUD
 CacheRegionNew()
 CacheRegionExists()
 CacheRegionRemove(
)
 CacheGetProperties()
 CacheSetProperties()
• CacheGet()
• CacheGetAllIds()
• CachePut()
• CacheRemove()
• CacheRemoveAll()

Cache Metadata
 CacheGetMetadata(): to get cache meta data for cache entry
cache_hitcount Number of hits
cache_misscount Number of misses
createdtime Creation time
Name Cache region Name
idletime time to idle for an element before it expires
lasthit last hit timestamp
Lastupdated last modified timestamp
size Cached Object size in bytes
timespan time to live for an element before it expires.

Query Cache - cachedwithin
<cfquery
name="GetParks" datasource="cfdocexamples"
cachedwithin="#CreateTimeSpan(0, 6, 0, 0)#“
cacheRegion=“statewideParks”>
SELECT PARKNAME, REGION, STATE FROM Parks
ORDER BY ParkName, State
</cfquery>

Query Cache
 Backed by Ehcache by default from CF10.
 Internal cache fallback
 Server level setting Caching -> Use internal cache to store queries
 Application level specify
this.cache.useinternalquerycache=true|false
 Query limit
 Server level setting Caching -> Maximum number of cached queries default 100
 Application level specify
this.cache.querysize = 150

Query Cache
 Datasource name, the actual SQL statement itself, and the parameters
passed to the SQL statement will be used to pull out from the cache if
cache id not defined
 dbtype=query" and "CachedWithin" are mutually Exclusive

ORM Session Level Cache
 Entities loaded from DB cached in ORM session
 Short living exists as long as session is open
 Caches persistent Objects
 EntityLoad function
 For the first time hits DB gets the entity.
 For the second time retrieves from ORM session
 Should use EntityReload to force retrieval from DB
 ORMClearSession() clears session level cache

ORM Second level Caching
 CF uses EHCache as the default secondary cache provider from CF 9
 Caches
 Persistent Object
 Persistent Object Associations
 Results of Queries
 Long lived
 Supports Application specific Cache
 Absolute: this.ormsettings.cacheConfig = "c:/myApp/ehcache.xml"
 Relative to Application.cfc: this.ormsettings.cacheConfig = "ehcache.xml"
 Can Scale in clustered environment

ORM Cache Hierarchy
Database
ColdFusion
Application
Session Level Cache
Secondary Cache
(Ehcache)

ORM Second level Caching Example
 Application.cfc
<cfset this.name="Caching_Example">
<cfset this.datasource="cfartgallery">
<cfset this.ormenabled="true">
<cfset this.ormsettings.secondarycacheEnabled=true>
<cfset this.ormsettings.cacheProvider= "ehcache">
<cfset this.ormsettings.cacheConfig="ehcache.xml">

 CArtist.cfc
<cfcomponent persistent="true" schema="APP" table="Artists"
cachename="artist" cacheuse="read-only">
<cfproperty name="artistid" fieldtype="id"/>
<cfproperty name="firstname"/>
<cfproperty name="lastname"/>
<cfproperty name="state"/>
<cfproperty name="art" fieldtype="one-to-many"
cfc="CArt" fkcolumn="ArtID" cachename="ArtistArts"
cacheuse="read-only">
</cfcomponent>

 CArt.cfc
<cfcomponent persistent="true" schema="APP" table="Art">
<cfproperty name="artid" generator="identity"
fieldtype="id"/>
<cfproperty name="artname"/>
<cfproperty name="issold"/>
</cfcomponent>

<cfscript>
//This will cache the Artist Component and also the
association. It wouldn't cache the Art objects.
artistObj = EntityLoad("CArtists", 3, true);
//This will cache the query.
availableArts = ORMExecuteQuery("from CArt where issold=0",
{}, false, {cacheable=true,
cachename="availableArtsCache"});
</cfscript>

ORM Cache Access Strategies
 Read Only
 Nonstrict-read-write
 Read-write

ORM Cache: Eviction
 ORMEvictEntity("<entity_name>", [primarykey])
 ORMevictcollection("<entity_name>", "<association_name>",
[primarykey])
 ORMEvictQueries(cachename, datasource)

Template Cache: Pages
 Both server- side and client-
side caching
 Cache an entire page
 Single <cfcache> at top of
page
 No need of closing tag
</cfcache>
 Also, <cfcache/>
Header
Naviga
tion
Bar
Content
Footer
<cfcache>

Template Cache: Fragments
 Cache individual fragments of content
 Useful when parts of a page must remain
dynamic or personalized.
 Surround with <cfcache>…</cfcache> tags
 Multiple fragments can be cached in a
single request
 Each fragment can be configured
independently
 No Client side caching
Header
Naviga
tion
Bar
Content
Footer
<cfcache>
</cfcache>
<cfcache> <cfcache>
<cfcache>
</cfcache> </cfcache>
</cfcache>

Template Cache
 Timespan
 The interval until the item is flushed from the cache
 idleTime
 Flushes the cached item if it is not accessed for the specified time span
 Metadata
 Contains cache meta data info such as hit count, miss count created time etc.
 expireURL
 expireURL along with action = ‘flush’ used to flush pages that match the specified URL
or pattern
 Wild card Support
<cfcache action="flush" expireurl="*.cfm?productID=#URL.productID#">

Template Cache Key
CacheI
d Given
?
Get the
Request URL
useQuer
yString ?
No
Append Query
String from
URL
Compute a hash
from page physical
path and Append
YesNo
Has
End
Tag?
Append Line No
Yes
depend
s on ?
No
Append
dependent
variables
Yes
Template Cache
Key
No
Yes
http://localhost/example/index.cfm_query_themeid=1_pageid:17CF7BD640264F4CB3D507A4
72E0190Bsession.username=JZNKA

Object Cache
 Application code can take advantage of caching
 Can cache anything (Simple values, Complex Objects like files, images
etc.)
 Cache functions for CRUD operations and to get cache properties
(cfcache)
 Cache keys need to be managed manually. (id is mandatory)

Distributed Caching

Standalone
 Pros:
 In Process & faster access
 No serialization of keys and values
 Eventual Consistency local to Application
ColdFusio
n
Cache
JVM
 Cons
 Not Scalable
 Limited by CF JVM memory
 GC pauses
 On 32 Bit huge caches will suffer
 Bootstrapping only from Disk Store.
 Inconsistency on a cluster

Replicated
ColdFusio
n
Cach
eJVM
Cach
eJVM
Cach
eJVM
Cach
eJVM
Put, Remove,
Remove All,
Bootstrapping (Sync
or Async)
RMI, Jgroup
Protocols
ColdFusio
n
ColdFusio
n
ColdFusio
n
• Pros:
• In Process
• Data Consistency in
Cluster
• Bootstrapping from a
peer node
• Cons:
• GC Pauses
• Serialization overhead
• Limited by CF JVM
Memory

Centralized
ColdFusion
Cache
(L1)
JVM
ColdFusion
Cache
(L1)
JVM
Big
Memory
(L2
Cache)
JVM

Demo

<cflogin> Auth cache
 Prior to CF9 requires sticky sessions for clustered environment if
loginStorage=cookie
 CF10 onwards auth info is stored in ehcache
 To enable long lived logins or remember me type of functionality
 To provide fail-over and replication support in cluster
 Configuration for cflogin cache can be found at <cf-home>/lib/auth-
ehcache.xml

Peer Node Discovery
 Automatic Peer Discovery
<cacheManagerPeerProviderFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICacheManagerPeerProvider
Factory"
properties ="peerDiscovery=automatic,
multicastGroupAddress=230.0.0.1,multicastGroupPort=4446,
timeToLive=32"/>
Automatic addition & deletion of peer nodes

Peer Node Discovery
 Manual Discovery
 Peers cannot be added or removed at runtime
 Multicast is not supported between the nodes
 Each peer should know about all other peers
<cacheManagerPeerProviderFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICacheManagerPeerProvid
erFactory"
properties="peerDiscovery=manual,rmiUrls=//server2:40001/sam
pleCache11|//server2:40001/sampleCache12"/>

Peer to Peer Communication
Configure hostname & port to listen for messages from peers
<cacheManagerPeerListenerFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICacheManagerPeerListen
erFactory"
properties="hostName=localhost, port=40001,
socketTimeoutMillis=2000"/>
*Port must be unique to each peer

Auth Cache
 Configure replication to auth cache
<cache name="authcache"
maxElementsInMemory="10000"
eternal="false"
overflowToDisk="false"
diskSpoolBufferSizeMB="30"
maxElementsOnDisk="10000000"
diskPersistent="false"
diskExpiryThreadIntervalSeconds="3600"
memoryStoreEvictionPolicy="LRU"
clearOnFlush="true">

Cache Replication
 Enable replication for auth cache
<cacheEventListenerFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMICacheReplicatorFactory
"
properties="replicateAsynchronously=true,
replicatePuts=true, replicateUpdates=true,
replicateUpdatesViaCopy=false, replicateRemovals=true "/>
</cache>

Peer Bootstrapping
 Enable Bootstrapping from peer for auth cache
<bootstrapCacheLoaderFactory
class="net.sf.ehcache.distribution.RMIBootstrapCacheLoaderFa
ctory"
properties="bootstrapAsynchronously=false,
maximumChunkSizeBytes=5000000"
propertySeparator="," />

Monitoring
 Copy ehcache-probe-<version>.jar to lib directory of each peer
 Add the below listener to monitor the cache
<cacheManagerPeerListenerFactory
class="org.terracotta.ehcachedx.monitor.probe.ProbePeerListe
nerFactory"
properties="monitorAddress=localhost, monitorPort=9889,
memoryMeasurement=true" />

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