Performance has not always been a priority for object storage. Instead, object storage found its role in secondary applications, such as archiving and backup, and, although object storage is widely ...

The performance of web services for large-scale servers has been questioned on numerous occasions. Because of this, the performance of web services for smart objects has to be critically examined.

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Temporary objects are those that have a short lifetime and generally serve no useful purpose other than to act as containers for other data. Programmers generally use temporary objects to pass ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

Excessive object creation can be a huge problem in Java programs. Despite continuing improvements in JVM technology for memory management, the object creation and garbage collection cycle is still a ...