Author Srini Penchikala discusses implementing object caching using three open source caching frameworks: Java Caching System, OSCache, and Java Object Cache. He presents these frameworks' ...

Developed by Danga Interactive to improve site performance on LiveJournal.com, Memcached‘s distributed architecture today supports the exponential scalability of social web applications like Twitter, ...

A local in-memory cache is very fast, but isolated to one JVM. A distributed cache is shared across instances, but slower and operationally heavier. Combining both usually leads to messy application ...