Discusses pessimistic vs. optimistic locking of shared caches; in pure functional languages, like Haskell, collections never change -- modifications result in new collections. References the book, "Concurrency<sep/>
pp is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network). It is light, easy to install and integrate with other python softwar
"memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."