The Conifer Systems Blog

We’ve published a new whitepaper on Replication vs. Caching.  This whitepaper discusses the tradeoffs between two different ways of accelerating multi-site development.  At the risk of giving away the punch line, here’s the key point to take away:

For accelerating offsite development, caching, especially when combined with intelligent prefetching, provides most of the advantages of replication without its many disadvantages.  Setting up caches is cheap and easy.  Replication is best suited for offsite backups, not for accelerating offsite development.

Welcome to the new Conifer Systems site! This site will serve as both our regular web page and our official blog.

The big news: we’ve officially launched our first product, Cascade!  You can learn more about it and watch a Flash video demo.

We also have our first whitepaper available — check it out…