ASP.NET MVC Tip #39 ââ?¬â?? Use the Velocity Distributed Cache

Improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC applications by taking advantage of the Velocity distributed cache. In this tip, I also explain how you can use Velocity as a distributed session state provider. The best way to improve the performance of an ASP.NET MVC application is by caching. The slowest operation that you can perform in an ASP.NET MVC application is database access. The best way to improve the performance of your data access code is to avoid accessing the database at all. Caching enables you to avoid accessing the database by keeping frequently accessed data in memory. Because ASP.NET MVC is part of the ASP.NET framework, you can access the standard ASP.NET System.Web.Caching.Cache object from your ASP.NET MVC applications. The standard...(read more) ...