Friday, October 3, 2008

Look ahead cache for internet content for the client side

This idea came to me while I was browsing the images album on orkut. Here when we are viewing any image we generally tend to look in a serialized fashion. This common trend can be utilized by the server side (in this case Orkut server) to send the next image in that list to the client side(user). This is because he or she is ~90% more likely to click the "Next" button on the screen.

Well this is just one part of it. We can do this advanced caching of pages/contents for general data as well. For example we can do it when we read a pdf part by part. This technique is already implemented in streaming videos from the net. This is just another addition to that logic.

You can add other examples as well. This is blog is open for discussion.

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