Appfabric Caching - Serialization - appfabric

I could not find an answer to this simple question. What kind of serializer is used in AppFabric Caching ?
Thanks,

It's NetDataContractSerializer.
found here

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Difference between middleware and web services?

I am quite confused with these terms.
As far as I understand
Middleware provides the connection between devices/applications present in heterogeneous system.
Web services provides the methods through which the message can be transferred using the connection developed by middleware.
Am I right?
Someone has already asked this before, you can check this post out!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51342001/difference-between-protocol-middleware-web-services-and-api#:~:text=Web%20services%20these%20are%20very%20similar%20to%20APIs.&text=Therefore%20web%20service%20can%20be,get%20the%20full%20application%20capabilities)
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How to stop Django if memcached isn't working

I am looking for a way to stop Django at start up if my memcached isn't working. Is there a way or best practice ?
I'm using memcached with DRF, specifically with throttling and the throttling mandatory.
Thx for reading.
Flave

Is it viable to set up a store only using magento API?

I am trying to set up a web store using magento on a SOA Architecture. So I intend to use all of the functionalities through the API connecting it with mule ESB.
However on my research I have read that the magento API is Silly Slow. And now I am wondering if it actually can handle the requests of an entire website.
Has anybody done something like this before? Can it actually work? If not, is there a workaround?
Regards
Leo
No, it is not viable to setup a store using only Magento's SOAP and RPC APIs. THat is not the intention of these APIs.
There are examples where people have done what you are looking for such as http://www.yireo.com/software/magebridge
They claim to be 40% faster than native Magento.
I've tried the tool, and it is quite functional.

Is it possible to use Django with Qooxdoo framework?

Guys i would like to use Django as my backend framework and qooxdoo as the frontend framework.
Is it practical to do this?
Has anyone tried to do this?
How did they do it?
Links and pointers would nice.
Gath
I have no direct experience using Django and qooxdoo, but the general answer to the question "Is it practical?" is: yes :). Although Django's default rendering behaviour is to produce HTML (which is unsuitable for a single page application like the ones you build with qooxdoo), it's easy to switch to returning e.g. Json on requests, which is a common format for the client-server communication between a qooxdoo frontend and a server. They just exchange data.
Has anyone tried to do this? - Yes, but they don't give much information on how, other than the before mentioned Json data exchange, implementing a Json RPC server in Django using RPC4Django.
AFAIK, there is no deeper Django integration, e.g. interfacing qooxdoo with Django views on the server (like dojango).
Hope this helps.
Update:
There is one elaborate product, Sava, using qooxdoo for the frontend and Django for the backend. There is a short overview, but I think it's closed-source so it only testifies to the "practicality" of using this technology stack. You probably won't learn in detail how it is realized.
There is also enre, a qooxdoo-based GUI for Django. But I'm not familiar with it, and couldn't find any documentation on first glance, so I'm not sure what this really means.

Tool For Constructing HTTP Requests

I'm looking for the best tool that allows me to construct my own http requests. Like the firefox addon poster.
Any suggestions. I'm looking at doing some security testing on webservices.
Thanks
Fiddler2 is the best tool I know of for that kind of work .. massive amount of features for scripting building requests, as well as storing sessions for later analysis.
cURL is a nice command-line tool.
Tamper Data
Apache JMeter
soapUI is great for testing web services.
WebScarab from the Open Web Application Security Project.