Return to civilization...re-launch of Terracotta.org
puredanger 
via javathink.blogspot.com
It's been a bit since I posted...we've been really busy cranking away on a new site at Terracotta, and it's finally out.
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Gnip handles the entire Twitter feed and more
puredanger via blog.terracottatech.com
Using Terracotta on Amazon EC2, Gnip is handling the fire hose coming from many popular social networking sites. Gnip offers a single consolidated and... more »
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Nine Deadly Startup Diseases — and How to Cure Them
bloid via sitepoint.com
Building a startup is hard. There are many problems that can hurt a startup—perhaps even kill it. This article examines some of the more common... more »
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Memcached, but do you need it?
bloid via optimmysql.blogspot.com
With all due respect to the technology and it's advocates (myself included), after a surge in articles describing the merits of using memcached I'm... more »
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Game over for Vista?
This week at the Black Hat Security Conference two security researchers will discuss their findings which could completely bring Windows Vista to its... more »
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Terracotta & SpringSource Application Platform
I thought I would share this with the rest of the world and maybe save humanity a few hours of trial and error. I have managed to make Terracotta (TC)... more »
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Stop Catching Exceptions!
Too many programmers catch exceptions too often, causing both mainline and error handling logic to be complex and error-prone. Although C#, PHP... more »
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Thoughts on Terracotta
I looked at Terracotta over the last few weeks. My goals were to understand what it does and how it could be helpful to us in the future. To achieve... more »
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Thinking about data lifetimes
puredanger via tech.puredanger.com
As we’ve been getting started on a Terracotta reference application, we’ve started thinking hard about the lifetime of every piece of data. And when... more »
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Settling on a stack
puredanger via tech.puredanger.com
I wrote a while back about the project I’m currently working on to build a reference application with Terracotta. At that time, we were still trying... more »
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Gotcha: using RIFE's bean-centric validation with Terracotta (or any entity container/cache)
bloid via rifers.org
RIFE has a unique approach towards validation which is centralized around bean instances and not bean classes.
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Run terracotta as a service
Instructions on how to run a terracotta service as a service. Uses Java service wrapper.
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The Erlang hype is grotesque
bloid via stephan.reposita.org
Take for example this recent post on hacker news with the title “Amazon and Google Discover Erlang (IMDB is switching from Perl to Erlang)”. There in... more »
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Narrowing the focus
Terracotta is a platform for sharing clustered Java heap. There are many amazing things you can do with it. Too many, in fact. That has sometimes made... more »
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Software: Live and Let Die
bloid via sensualjava.blogspot.com
This week I was lucky to attend Gilad Bracha's guest lecture on Networked Serviced Programming at the Hebrew University. He has been talking about... more »
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Tuning, Testing, Deploying Terracotta Implementations - how does my application time-to-market change?
Talks about experience tuning, testing, deploying Terracotta and offers some advice around some best practices.
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Avoiding the Palm / Treo Mistake
What killed Treo in my opinion was largely its instability. I think it is safe to assume Palm had a hardcore QA team. After all they were building... more »
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You Might be Overengineering your Project If ...
Really nice and funny description of the symptoms of the overengineering ... I recognized most of my old projects ...
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J2EE Applications and Clusters
The ideas mentioned below are based on the practical experience of porting an existing application over a clustered environment.
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Red Hat's IcedTea Powers OpenJDK to Full TCK Compatibility (no encumbered code)
Most of you know that the road to open source Java has been a long and winding one. Today an important milestone was announced, and through the... more »
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Distributed Ehcache with Terracotta
puredanger via tech.puredanger.com
A how-to guide on clustering Ehcache with Terracotta.
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Why Java Isn’t The Problem
Quite a few people recently have been blaming Java for part of the downfall in current computer science (CS) graduates. While I don’t particularly... more »
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Java Concurrency: Read / Write Locks
Java 5 comes with read / write lock implementations in the java.util.concurrent package. Even so, it may still be useful to know the theory behind... more »
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SmartFoxServer and Terracotta Clustering Design Patterns
In the vein of discovering the Terracotta killer app (more accurately, "killer apps," since there's a universe of possible things to do with... more »
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(JSR 133) Java Memory Model FAQ : Synchronized, Volatile, Final, etc.
What does synchronization do? How can final fields appear to change their values? What does volatile do? Does the new memory model fix the... more »
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