BETA Records ( http://www.betarecords.com/ ), in anticipation of their
upcoming release of Version 3 (V3) of their online music social
community, has created a technological innovation that could
ultimately allow websites to become more dynamic, creative and
sophisticated while enabling companies to cut costs and reduce loads
on servers needed in large-scale clusters.
Called "BETACache," the new technology resulted from BETA�s PHP
developers Rock Mutchler, Paul-Anton van Handel, Jon Bauer, Bernhard
Schenkenfelder, and Eric Hollander.
"These guys may have devised the ultimate scalability breakthrough for
large-scale communities around the world - it's like taking the
performance of a Volkswagen and turning it into a Bentley overnight,"
says Chris Honetschlaeger, BETA Records president. "From Facebook down
to the world's 20 million PHP websites, we at BETA are hopeful to
finally give back to the PHP community we so admire."
PHP applications require a means of caching data from remote services,
expensive database queries and other performance-killing operations.
These problems are greatly magnified by Web 2.0's heavy reliance on
numerous AJAX requests to the web application, and frequent web
service calls to partners.
"BETACache could offer a superior alternative to the widely-used
memcached, as well as opening up a tremendous amount of other features
to PHP application engineers through JCS," says Rock Mutchler, BETA VP
of Technology. "With the BETACache process in place, we can now use
the leading technologies to solve the performance issues that
developers face. At BETA we have modified Zend Cache in the Zend
Framework, by adding our own custom object that makes use of the Zend
Platform Java Bridge."
The Zend Platform PHP/Java Bridge is a PHP module which provides
stable and high-performance access to a Java Virtual Machine. "Through
this we're able to use the JCS package to provide an enterprise-class,
pluggable and tunable distributed caching system written in Java,"
Mutchler states.
BETACache offers a clustered, distributed cache system which
automatically caches objects in local memory, local disk, or on remote
servers. The Zend Java Bridge allows high-performance enterprise-class
integration between the PHP environment and JCS. "We are excited about
future enhancements of BETACache to leverage Enterprise Java
persistence systems in our clustered PHP application," Hollander said.
BETA Records LLC will soon be providing source code and documentation
for the BETACache system. For further information:
office@betarecords.com.
http://www.betarecords.com/
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