In a recent Stackoverflow podcast (#59), Jeff Atwood mentions that Stackoverflow has some "shared state." I understand the general idea of shared state, but what exactly is shared state in the context of an ASP.NET MVC application, like Stackoverflow? Specifically, I'd like to know the following: What does it look like? How do you s...
As far as I know there is Terracotta and Maglev. Are there any others? ...
I'm not too well-informed about the state of the discussion about which model is better, so I would like to ask a pretty straight question: Does it look like two opposing views having really heatened dispute? E.g. like prototype/class based OOP or dynamic vs. static typing (though these are really not much fitting examples, I just do...
I am doing something that is probably silly, but it would be nice if it worked. I am attempting to specialize types in a way that I need my own lookup structure that is essentially global (but ideally encapsulated as a class variable), but I want the objects to be type safe, so they are parameterized. Consequently, I have, essentially ...