Ronny Pasch

Users of Web applications want nothing but the best when it comes to the performance of a Web application. The servers they run on work hard to deliver the applications as efficiently and quickly as possible. Several elements and techniques aid in this process, such as caching. Caching is an invaluable technique when it comes to speeding up your applications. The idea is simple: store the output of a given task for a certain amount of time. On subsequent requests, check if previously stored output is available and use that instead of doing the same task over and over again. Caching will save you hundreds of valuable milliseconds and should be utilized wherever possible within your applications. Now don't get too excited and start caching everything. Use caching with care and always make sure the right information is cached for the right amount of time. ColdFusion c... (more)