[Developers] webservice in the server-side and caching doubts

[Jason Douglas]

Hi Guillermo,

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're looking for, but I  
thought I'd let you know that we're piloting a new server-side  
JavaScript hosted service that may or may not be of use to you.  It's  
mostly useful for "mashing up" freebase queries (including with  
external data) and then serving the result as a page or web service  
rather than just a pure caching layer.  If you think it might be of  
interest, let me know, and I can point you to how to try it out.

There's at least one other group that has been using Google's  
AppEngine as a bridge between Freebase and their service.

If what you want really is just a pure caching layer on your servers,  
I'm not the expert on that... otherwise I would offer some advice.  :-)

-jason

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Jason Douglas
Director of Platform Products
jason at metaweb.com



On Aug 24, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Guillermo Cifuentes Achotegui wrote:

> Hi all !
> I'm developing a new webservice that will use freebase for  
> displaying some info about companies and its products and things  
> like these. What I mean is that more or less the types for search  
> are quite static. The backend is developed in python. I've been  
> using the python's api and it's ok. But now when I have to implement  
> it, i'm not sure at all how could I develop the service.
>
> What would you suggest using: the mjt templates (client side,  
> javascript) or would you fetch the data before from the server?
>
> Well this is a hard question, but the point of the service is to  
> integrate the service with my own data, so I think that processing  
> data in the backend would be more right than processing a lot of  
> data in javascript. At this point I have a question, fetching and  
> maping the data between both services is expensive (in network and  
> processing terms, which involves lag for the final user) so the  
> solution is caching. Alright, which caching strategy do you use? I  
> find memcached it's not intuitive caching this type of data where  
> there're lots of relations between them so I cannot figure myself  
> how could I cache things.
>
> So,
> Which approach do you use when you need to cache data from freebase  
> in your own server? if you use memcached how do you group  
> information for beeing cached by one key? Does exist other  
> alternatives?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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