Microsoft’s newest Garnet will make your Windows run faster than ever before

Garnet is open-source and it can be downloaded from GitHub.

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Published onMarch 20, 2024

published onMarch 20, 2024

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Microsoft announced the release of Garnet, a new cache-store system that effectively makes every platform and service it integrates with run faster, by deploying new cache-store methods to deal with cache-related issues and algorithms.

Garnet addresses a series of limitations of the current methods, and it is capable of further optimizing the processes that deal with storing cache data resulting in a faster performance overall.

We’re not talking about a specific platform, but a variety of them, and the Redmond-based tech giant says Garnet can be integrated into Windows, and its Web Experiences Platform, such as Copilot, or Microsoft Edge, but it can also make software developing-oriented platforms, such as Azure Resource Manager, and Azure Resource Graph, run faster.

The Redmond-based tech giant made Garet open-source (Microsoft also made Retina, another Azure service, open-source, as well) and it is available to download and integrated with applicationson GitHub.

According to Microsoft, Garnet offers multiple benefits compared to the legacy cache-store methods, including, but not limited to:

In a blog post, Microsoft details the struggles of coming up with an innovative way of dealing with cache-store, including the possibility of developing a method that offers faster optimization and would consume fewer resources.

The Redmond-based tech giant says it has been working on Garnet since 2021, and based on their previous work, the open-sourceFASTERembedded key-value library, they managed to come up with a new remote cache store that had all the necessary features to replace existing cache stores.

Most of the current technology, and Windows devices should be able to make use of Garnet to provide a faster experience to users, but Microsoft is also hoping that the open-source community will contribute to making Garnet even better than it is now.

You can read the full blog posthere.

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