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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Stateful Web Applications that Scale Like Stateless Ones
Within every innocent web application lies a sleeping monster. If successful, your application will outgrow its single-machine architecture. The adult... more »
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Terracotta Killer App
In the comments to my post about what Terracotta is not, Jay Meyer wrote, "[Terracotta] is so disruptive that an application architect really needs to... more »
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Using Terracotta for Configuration Management
This article by JR Boyens details using Terracotta to propagate configuration management on the fly across a network, such that a client can pull up... more »
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Fun with Distributed Programming
How-to make distributed programming fun. Short example with code.
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Chronicles of a Terracotta Integration: Compass
Last week, I met up with Shay Banon, author of Compass, at the The Server Side: Vegas conference. We thought it would be great to see if we couldn't... more »
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Compass/Lucene Terracotta Integration
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I am happy to announce that Compass now supports integration with Terracotta. This integration allows for applications that use Compass or pure Lucene... more »
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Which Company is Best at Java?
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So, in your honest opinion, which company today is the best in the world at Java and why? Is it one of the usual suspects like Sun, IBM, and Oracle,... more »
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A Clustered ClassLoader
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If you're building a distributed system, or contemplating building a distributed system, you might have run into this one before
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Stupid Simple JVM Coordination
Simple demo using a LinkedBlockingQueue and a FutureTask to coordinate activity - across JVMs.
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Spring + Terracotta Quickstart
Peter Veentjer has cooked up a nice project template that serves as a good example/starting point for exploring Terracotta and Spring.
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Making a good use of Maven metadata
One of the great things about Maven is that it provides a well defined project metadata. This include obvious things like project description,... more »
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What Happened to DZone?
The nature of the site has changed a lot in the most recent few weeks. Perhaps for the better for some, for me, it's a turn for the worse. I'm trying... more »
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InfoQ reviews the use of Terracotta Server as an enterprise message bus
InfoQ does a "deep dive" into the use of Terracotta Server as a message bus. The author also mentions clustering Scala actors with Terracotta Server.... more »
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It's the little things that matter...
... today I ran into a very simple example that illustrates not only a) why Object Identity is important but b) why it's simultaneously important to... more »
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Farewell to the 'J' in 'JVM'?
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Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, recently said, "we're just going to take the 'J' off the 'JVM' and just make it a 'VM'." What does that mean? Here several... more »
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If it ain't got "Hello World" and it ain't got a CookBook....
If an Open Source project isn't easy to run out of the box, it might as well stay undercover 'till it is. All the authors are going to do is burn... more »
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Code complete doesn't mean you're done
Too many developers think they're done when they finish coding. They are wrong. Terracotta server is holding its own as our message bus, but we're... more »
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Pod Racing: How to synchronize threads across multiple JVMs
Sometimes, you want to start the job in multiple JVMs only when all the VM has started. This scenario often comes up with multiplayer games. Let's... more »
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Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta
Recently Shine Technologies distributed one of its applications using Terracotta and achieved significant performance gains. In the past, our... more »
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Why Should You Care About MapReduce?
MapReduce is a distributed programming model intended for processing massive amounts of data in large clusters, developed by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay... more »
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Terracotta Replaces MySQL and Messaging
Mark details what he did to build his app using only Terracotta. It is an interesting read because, although he only touches upon why the other 2... more »
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Clustering Scala Actors with Terracotta
I have spent some time last weeks looking into if would make sense to utilize Terracotta to cluster the Scala Actors library to give a platform on... more »
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Maven Archetype to build a Terracotta project
One of the seed projects that would be very useful for Terracotta DSO users, is the TIM Archetype project. TIM stands for Terracotta Integrations... more »
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Thinking In Java: In today's world, what is the role of the Application Server?
How do the recent acquisitions change the Application Server market? Are the big players - BEA (now Oracle), IBM and Sun still providing value in the... more »
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