Distributed Caching with Microsoft's "Velocity"

Summary

This Hanselminutes episode from TechEd 2008 discusses Microsoft's new Velocity distributed caching technology. Scott Hanselman interviews Anil Nori and Murali Krishna Prasad from the SQL Server group about Velocity's focus on providing high-performance, scalable, and available caching for applications. The takeaway is that Velocity acts as a unified, distributed in-memory cache for any serializable object, offering benefits similar to out-of-process session state but with improved scalability.