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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Visualizing Cluster-Based Applications
Detecting concurrency-related bugs and performance bottlenecks is hard, especially on clusters consisting of a large number of nodes. In an interview... more »
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Terracotta: 1, Grails Searchable Plugin+Me: 0
I’m on a quest to figure out how to cluster the Grails Searchable plugin that’s based on Lucene/Compass across multiple nodes with as little intrusion... 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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Objective database abstraction layer (ODAL)
Objective database abstraction layer (ODAL) is a high-performance database manipulation framework. Features include query API, O-R mapping, data... more »
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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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Scarlet 1.0 announced
Sourcesense, a leading European Open Source systems integration consultancy, today announced Scarlet v.1.0GA, the first freely-available, Open Source... 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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Alex Miller: Exploring Terracotta - Weiqi Gao's Observations
Last night's St. Louis JUG featured Alex Miller from Terracotta talking about his company's flagship product Terracotta.
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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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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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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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Grails, Lucene and Compass clustered with Terracotta
Round Two of my quest to cluster the Grails Searchable Plugin index with Terracotta! In my first post I outlined my intent to use Terracotta to... more »
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Why are we not using Java EE 5?
Believe it or not, in a few months the Java EE 5 specification will be two years old (Final Release on the 11 May, 2006). And nobody is using... more »
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DZone Suggestion, More Comments
I like DZone a lot. I read it regularly and post to it when practical. I like the rising links, I like the popular links, I even like the voting... more »
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Open Source and Caching Algorithms
In an attempt to contribute to open source, a developer learns about caching algorithms.
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