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6th June 2008 - Link Blog

Velocity: A Distributed In-Memory Cache from Microsoft. I’d been wondering what Microsoft ecosystem developers were using in the absence of memcached. Is Velocity the first Windows platform implementation of this idea?

Posted 6th June 2008 at 9:52 pm

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