Gateway Software Symposium
September 28 - 30, 2007 - St. Louis, MO
Alex Miller
Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.
Alex Miller is a Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc, the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, query languages, and software design. Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com and has spoken at a number of Java user group meetings and conferences.
In St. Louis, Alex is responsible for founding the Lambda Lounge, a user group for the study of functional and dynamic languages.
Presentations
Cluster your Cache with Hibernate and Terracotta
Terracotta (an open source technology) provides a clustered, durable, virtual heap. You can reduce the load on your database by allowing Terracotta to handle sharing and persistence of temporary conversational state in your web application. One option is to simply cluster your existing Hibernate L2 cache (for instance with ehcache).
A higher performance option is to disconnect your POJOs from the Hibernate session and manage them entirely in Terracotta shared heap until they are ready to be written back to the system of record. This option can yield extremely high performance while simultaneously reducing the load on your database, allowing you to scale your system with significantly less hardware.
This session will look at the Terracotta architecture and technology and how it can be used in tandem with Hibernate to create a scalable clustered cache that maximizes the benefits of POJOs.
Collections 201
Did you know that Java 5 and 6 added 8 new interfaces and 16 new collection implementations to the JDK, more than doubling the size of the collection API? Collections 201 gives you an update on all of the interfaces, implementations, and utilities and gives you guidance on picking the perfect collection. In particular, Java 5 introduced a new major collection type Queue and a whole new java.util.concurrent package with data structures optimized for concurrent use.
In addition to covering the interfaces and implementations, we will also look at the backing data structures, iterator types, concurrency and performance concerns, and more.
Books
by Terracotta Inc.
List Price: $44.99
Price: $26.22
You Save: $18.77 (42%)
-
Get the definitive guide on all the fundamentals of Terracotta as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks.
Written by Terracotta's chief technology officer Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability covers the following:
- High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other application) as well as Spring–based enterprise applications
- Everyday Terracotta using its prepackaged frameworks and integration recipes, including configuration and customization for your application tuning, no matter the scale
- Power user secrets available, including config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more
What you’ll learn
- See how Terracotta works fundamentally, and the user pieces and parts necessary for using Terracotta and its open source options
- Learn and apply case studies involving distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, and HTTP Session
- Understand thread coordination and advanced performance tuning
- Use more advanced case studies involving Spring, POJOs, FOO, and more
- Configure and create your own modules using the software development and deployment life cycle
Who this book is for
This definitive book from the Terracotta team is for both developers and architects who want to learn the “whats, wheres, whens, and whys” of the Terracotta scaling engine.
Table of Contents
- Theory and Foundation: Forming a Common Understanding
- History of Terracotta
- Jumping Into Terracotta
- POJO Clustering
- Caching
- Hibernate with Terracotta
- Extending HTTP Sessions with Terracotta
- Clustering Spring
- Integration Modules
- Thread Coordination
- Grid Computing Using Terracotta
- Visualizing Applications
Price: $26.22
You Save: $18.77 (42%)
-
Get the definitive guide on all the fundamentals of Terracotta as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks.
Written by Terracotta's chief technology officer Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability covers the following:
- High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other application) as well as Spring–based enterprise applications
- Everyday Terracotta using its prepackaged frameworks and integration recipes, including configuration and customization for your application tuning, no matter the scale
- Power user secrets available, including config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more
What you’ll learn
- See how Terracotta works fundamentally, and the user pieces and parts necessary for using Terracotta and its open source options
- Learn and apply case studies involving distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, and HTTP Session
- Understand thread coordination and advanced performance tuning
- Use more advanced case studies involving Spring, POJOs, FOO, and more
- Configure and create your own modules using the software development and deployment life cycle
Who this book is for
This definitive book from the Terracotta team is for both developers and architects who want to learn the “whats, wheres, whens, and whys” of the Terracotta scaling engine.
Table of Contents
- Theory and Foundation: Forming a Common Understanding
- History of Terracotta
- Jumping Into Terracotta
- POJO Clustering
- Caching
- Hibernate with Terracotta
- Extending HTTP Sessions with Terracotta
- Clustering Spring
- Integration Modules
- Thread Coordination
- Grid Computing Using Terracotta
- Visualizing Applications
