Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how an online gaming application with a social experience and a growing user base can build a scaling solution by leveraging a caching tier. This is a typical use-case of how more and more applications really need a caching tier which must be scalable, highly available, offers excellent performance, and provides easy tools for the operations team. Windows Server AppFabric caching is a fitting choice that can be used by web and mid-tier applications.

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