Microsoft project code named "Velocity"

The advances in processors, memory, storage, and connectivity have paved the way for next-generation applications that are data-driven, whose data could reside anywhere (i.e. on the desktops, mobile devices, servers, and in the cloud) and that require...

Velocity Team is happy to announce release of Microsoft project code named "Velocity" CTP3 For community technology preview 3 (CTP3), Microsoft project code named "Velocity" offers several enhancements and revised APIs. The enhancements include cache...

This article talks about using Microsoft project code named “Velocity” PowerShell cmdlets in C# code for distributed cache cluster administration. 1) Go through the following blog to get started with using Exchange Management Shell commands in managed...

Microsoft Distributed Cache code named Velocity ships with a custom Session State provider that use distributed cache to spread session objects across the cluster; thus, providing scalability to your web applications. To configure SessionStoreProvider...

Yesterday, we announced the first CTP of Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”. This post is a follow-up to clear up a couple of points that we’ve seen in forums. First, the usage scenarios. Velocity is intended to provide distributed caching...

We are excited to announce that the Beta 2 release of Windows Server AppFabric is now available for download via http://msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric . This is the Windows Server AppFabric build that works with the RC (Release Candidate) build of Visual...

At PDC 2009 we have announced roadmap and details on release of Microsoft project codenamed "Velocity" under Windows Server AppFabric, to download latest bits and more details please check out following links. On-Premises or in the Cloud, One Consistent...

Benchmark showcases Microsoft’s Project Code-named “Velocity” ability to Scale Web Application Grid Dynamics, a Microsoft partner, created three sample applications, designed to be typical use cases for data caching, and ran extensive benchmarking...

Today we are announcing CTP2 of Microsoft Project Code Name Velocity. Please download the CTP2 bits here . This entry will highlight what’s new with CTP2 and a follow-up request for feedback on what you would like to see in the product as we finalize...

Windows PowerShell allows you to invoke C# code directly from the PowerShell scripts. This offers a powerful way to “script” cache operations such as puts/gets etc. This can be used to prime the cache as part of an automated setup or to perform other...

As Velocity moves ahead with the next release milestone, there is an update that - Velocity is planning to release CTP 4 around mid-September 2009. Some of the features planned for CTP 4 would be - Velocity Setup/Configuration changes, Velocity Performance...

This article will guide you through the process of creating more than one instance of Microsoft project code named "Velocity" (henceforth referred to as "Velocity" for the remainder of the article) on one standalone machine. All such instances created...

Microsoft distributed cache project codename 'Velocity' CTP3 is coming out soon, as we are working hard toward CTP3 launch (around MIX 09) with improvements in Scalability, Availability, Notifications etc More details to come with Velocity CTP3 release...

Hi, I hope you got a chance to visit our velocity page , download the bits and try it out – We are waiting to hear your feedback and you give it us by commenting on this blog page or by visiting us on our velocity forum . I want to talk about...

Hi, Hope all of you are having great time caching your data with Microsoft project code named “Velocity” . This post is first in the series of some practices and guidelines to follow in order to make best use of “Velocity” and for troubleshooting any...

Anil and myself presented Velocity at PDC - I did an overview (Intro) session while Anil did an under-the-hood and futures session. The videos are here TL14 Project "Velocity": A First Look Presenter: Murali Krishnaprasad Resources: ...

How to control ETW sessions and collect traces In this section I will describe how to work with an ETW sink. ETW stands for “Event Tracing for Windows”. It is a high speed tracing facility provided by the OS. It uses buffering and logging mechanism...

Jarek has written a blog and a sample of integrating caches into EF. One integration sample is using Velocity CTP3 bits. Take a look at http://blogs.msdn.com/jkowalski/archive/2009/06/11/tracing-and-caching-in-entity-framework-available-on-msdn-code-gallery...

Aaron has published a Velocity article on MSDN magazine. It also include sample code for the cool Northwind demos that I used in my recent talks. Check it out at - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd861287.aspx

Sometimes you see this error in the Get calls and this can freak out people. There are a few reasons why this error may come. Internally we have a 15second timeout for calls (either Get or Put) .So if are not able to satisfy the request within that time...

Some changes are needed to be done in the application's configuration (web.config) to use the session state provider with CTP2 binaries. The changes (the differences between CTP1 Yellow and CTP2 green ) are listed below: 1) < configSections >...

We are planning to add performance counters in the upcoming release, CTP4. The performance counters will be available for one or both of the following categories: · Host - A category for single-instance performance counters pertaining to a single cache...

You can increase the number of clients to increase the cache throughput. But sometimes if you want to have smaller set of clients and increase throughput, a trick is to use multiple DataCacheFactory instances. The DataCacheFactory instance creates a connection...

Anil and I gave a presentation on Velocity in one of the breakout sessions at TechEd. I have added the ppt to this blog and is also available on Skydrive http://cid-24acf41e6619b235.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Velocity%20TechEd%202008.pptx We...

Anshul ran some more numbers to see the max throughput and latency that we have observed with CTP3. Here are some numbers to share. Note that these are the max throughput numbers and latencies observed at those values. If you reduce the throughput...