Methods for a treatment of cached objects are described. In one
embodiment, an object, associated with an object key, is stored in a
first local memory cache associated with a first virtual machine within a
first computing system. The object is also stored in a serialized format
to a database. The object key is serialized after receiving a
notification of successful storage of the object in the database. The
serialized key is then sent over a network to a second computing system.