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Overcome Your Caching Conundrums [Server Side Essentials]
by dzc
ealing with browser caching is a balancing act. On one hand, you aim to minimize load times and bandwidth use by ensuring that images, scripts, and style sheets are cached by your visitors; however, you still want to ensure that they’re accessing the most recent versions of all your files.
In this article, I’ll show you a few methods for controlling how your site’s files are cached by browsers so you can achieve the best of both worlds: maintaining optimal performance while ensuring that any updates are seen immediately, without a hitch by all of your users.
October 2009
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July 2009
June 2009
sfManagedCachePlugin | Recoursive
by Xavier Lacot
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The very point of caching is that it's faster and less resource intensive to deliver cached data than creating it on the fly. With existing cache solutions, when the cached data expires, it has to be refreshed while the user waits. In environments that rely heavily on caching, such behavior has the potential to create thread pileups and other cascading failure scenarios.
This plugin introduces a cache manager : when an expired âge is called, then it is directly served from the cache, and then the cache gets asynchronously refreshed.
May 2009
April 2009
Web Cache | Gear6
by ERSWeb
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Gear6 Web Cache is a Memcached protocol-compliant solution that scales and accelerates web applications, reduces memory footprint, enhances availability and implements comprehensive Memcached management features. Designed to work with all popular memcache clients, Gear6 Web Cache integrates seamlessly into existing deployments and immediately provides a scalable, high density caching solution for your web application environment.
March 2009
Installing APC in Windows - MoodleDocs
by holyver
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APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a PHP opcode cache. It stores PHP pages in RAM and reduces hard disk activity. This makes a real difference to the performance in Moodle, and you should be able to achieve a 50% increase in system capacity and your CPU will be 50% less busy.
This guide is for installation of APC on a Windows server. The instructions have been tested on a Windows 2003 server, and they should also be applicable if you are using Windows XP as a test server.
February 2009
3n's db-script-cache at master - GitHub
by Krome
Ian Collins has created DBScriptCache, a JavaScript program that "automatically caches script files in the browser's HTML5 client-side database. Rather than including your scripts using script tags, you include them using this script. The first time a user views the page the scripts will be pulled into the db and stored. On subsequent visits the scripts will be loaded from the db cache and not from your server. The script will continue to come from the cache until you supply a new version number or change the name of the script."
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
reallysimplehistory - Google Code
by holyver
& 1 other
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Really Simple History is a lightweight JavaScript library for the management of bookmarking and browser history in Ajax/DHTML applications. RSH serializes application data in an internal JavaScript cache so that bookmarks and the back button can be used to return your application to an earlier state.
Originally developed by Brad Neuberg in 2005, RSH has won a large user base for its simplicity, ease of use and lack of dependency on any specific Ajax framework. It's written in plain old JavaScript and can be included on any site according to the terms of its BSD license.
In September 2007, Brian Dillard of Pathfinder Development came on board as maintainer and ongoing code steward for the project. A new version, with support for additional modern browsers (IE7, Safari, Opera), was released as RSH 0.6 on December 3, 2007.
