We all know that in version 15 SharePoint is now integrated with AppFabric's distributed cache. There's a Distributed Cache service running on each SharePoint server (with exception of the database ones), AppFabric cache is now configured by SharePoint installation routine, and finally there is a new namespace in SharePoint API: Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities. You could definitely use AppFabric's cache with SharePoint 2010, as long as you create a wrapper class that takes care of cache configuration, cluster and endpoints instances, etc. However, now that the AppFabric's cache is integrated, you would probably expect something as simple as SPDistributedCache.Get(cacheKey). Well, even a quick look at the poorly-documented Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.Utilities classes tells you this is still far from being true. Essentially the only benefit you currently get from this API is ability to access the distributed cache configuration, and us