Afternoon Session 1: Caching in ASP.NET with Memcached

My last session of the conference. From some talks with Ted during the alliance project, Memcached may be a better solution for session synchronization between PHP and .NET. I'll only get to attend about 45 minutes (out of 75) for this talk because the airport shuttle is picking me up.

Afternoon Session 1: Caching in ASP.NET with Memcached
Jeffery McManus
Platform Associates

Used by Facebook, Yahoo, Flickr (so well-tested in terms of scalability)
Presenter sees himself as "The Johnny Appleseed of Open Source" at VSLive.
Decouples caching from platform/dev environment (key of course to using across PHP/.NET
Distributed cache = better scalability
Preallocates memory - nonfragmented, does not need to allocate/deallocate small bits in real time like .NET would
Everything stored in key value pairs (can get around by applying an MD5 hash to a key)
Can store an object -- just gets serialized
Lots of .NET libs...he recommends BEit.Memcached (on Google code)

Have to run, but some really good stuff we should be using for shared cache.