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Episode 55: What Windows Server AppFabric Means For Developers



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In this episode Keith and Woody sat down at PDC09 with two members of the Windows Server AppFabric team, Ford McKinstry and Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, to discuss the new server feature. Windows Server AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier to build, scale and manage Web and composite applications that run on IIS.


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Ford McKinstry is from the Application Server Group at Microsoft where he was the Group Program Manager for Distributed Application Server (DAS). That team is responsible for the AppFabric product and specifically owns support for Hosting and Monitoring of WCF and WF services.   Ford has been at Microsoft for 15 years in a variety of roles and teams. He has focused primarily on developer and enterprise technologies including Visual J++, .Net Framework, WCF and most recently DAS.  He has recently moved to be a Group Program Manager on the Client Management and Protection team in the Identity and Security Division working on Forefront products.

MuralidharKrishnaprasad

Muralidhar Krishnaprasad (known as MK for short) was instrumental in architecting, developing and evangelizing AppFabric Cache, that has proven to be quite popular for scaling and making applications highly available. He is currently working as a development manager for AppFabric Messaging. Prior to Microsoft, he worked in Oracle Corporation where he worked on the Oracle database engine for over a decade. He worked on building various technologies including the Object Relational Infrastructure, Oracle XMLDB to store, query XML documents using SQL & XQuery, and various standards Committees. In addition, he architected the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search product designed to securely crawl, index and search data from multiple Application and data sources.

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#1 MX UK on 6.07.2010 at 1:12 PM

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#2 Philippe Monnet on 7.13.2010 at 3:23 PM

This was an awesome show. It's funny because I listened to it out of sequence with other shows, and after listening to Scott Hanselman's podcast on the same topic. I could not really get what his guests were saying at all but once I listened to "your" version of the topic everything made sense. So Thanks!!!!

#3 Taiwo on 7.14.2010 at 9:01 AM

I believe that the major goal of caching software is to address the slow i/o throughput of disk drives by caching data in memory and making the data available to applications running across the network. Given this, the advent of SSD drives and SSD-based SAN arrays obviate the need for caching software.

Hosting the database on an SSD SAN provides really fast i/o and doesn't require you to reprogram your application, deal with the setup and management complexity of caching software, deal with data synchronization between in-memory and durable disk data, or worry about the programmatic complexity and lock in of the caching software vendor.

SSDs are worth investigating for those who really care about i/o throughput. Check out Cybernetics.com and violin-memory.com.

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