This component was designed to manage the lifecycle of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) services.
AppFabric caching is not supported on .NET Core/5+. It requires Windows, has limited throughput, and lacks modern features like geo-replication, clustering automation, and TLS 1.2+ by default. appfabric
Looking back, Microsoft AppFabric was a product of its time. It attempted to solve the scalability problems of the .NET Framework 3.5/4.0 era before the cloud-native revolution took hold. This component was designed to manage the lifecycle
While parts of AppFabric have been superseded by technologies like Redis Cache on Azure or Service Fabric, understanding AppFabric remains critical for maintaining legacy enterprise systems and grasping Microsoft’s journey toward modern distributed architecture. Looking back, Microsoft AppFabric was a product of its time
AppFabric served a purpose for a brief window of time, but today it is a relic of a heavier, more proprietary era of software development.
New-CacheCluster -Provider System.Data.SqlClient -ConnectionString "Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=AppFabricCacheConfig;Integrated Security=True" New-Cache -CacheName “MyCache” -Eviction LRU -TimeToLiveMinutes 10 Grant-CachePermission -CacheName “MyCache” -User “DOMAIN\AppPoolIdentity”