http://gregluck.com/blog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:41:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:52:42 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=475 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/";A few weeks ago I attended a ThoughtWorks Technology Radar seminar. I worked at ThoughtWorks for years and think if anyone knows what is trending up and down in software development these guys do. At number 17 in Techniques with a rising arrow is what they called Thoughtful Caching. At drinks with Scott Shaw, I [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/introducing-deliberate-caching/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/similarities-and-differences-between-distributed-caches-and-nosql-stores/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/similarities-and-differences-between-distributed-caches-and-nosql-stores/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:43:12 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=471 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/similarities-and-differences-between-distributed-caches-and-nosql-stores/";I have done a Q&A with InfoQ on similarities between Distributed Caches and NoSQL Stores. Read it here.]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/11/similarities-and-differences-between-distributed-caches-and-nosql-stores/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/10/javax-cache-the-new-java-caching-standard/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/10/javax-cache-the-new-java-caching-standard/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:39:57 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=461 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/10/javax-cache-the-new-java-caching-standard/";This post explores the new Java caching standard: javax.cache. How it Fits into the Java Ecosystem This standard is being developed by JSR107, of which the author is co-spec lead. JSR107 is included in Java EE 7, being developed by JSR342. Java EE 7 is due to be finalised at the end of 2012. But [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/10/javax-cache-the-new-java-caching-standard/feed/ 2 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 05:41:35 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=438 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/";As you probably have heard, Terracotta has been acquired by Software AG. This is an exciting development for both companies. Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta has a comprehensive blog post detailing the acquisition and its implications. For me, it means I keep working for Terracotta, but now Terracotta is a wholly owned business unit within [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/05/terracotta-acquired-by-software-ag/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/04/jsr107-java-caching-api-update-lots-happening/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/04/jsr107-java-caching-api-update-lots-happening/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:31:11 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=427 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/04/jsr107-java-caching-api-update-lots-happening/";I have been very busy the last few months getting JSR107 fired up. Just to remind you JSR 107 is the Java Temporary Caching API. It is designed to be vendor neutral and will allow for easy change over of implementations in much the same way as JPA or JDBC. In this way it will [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/04/jsr107-java-caching-api-update-lots-happening/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comparative-java-use-cases-for-distributed-caches-and-nosql/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comparative-java-use-cases-for-distributed-caches-and-nosql/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:34:17 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=412 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comparative-java-use-cases-for-distributed-caches-and-nosql/";I have been doing some NoSQL research lately. The first fruit of that work was a guest post on myNoSQL, Ehcache: Distributed Cache or NoSQL Store, which crisply distinguished between a Distributed Cache and NoSQL Stores. In this article I am going to delve into the suitability of each for various technical use cases. I [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/comparative-java-use-cases-for-distributed-caches-and-nosql/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:48:32 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=405 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/";JSR342 JSR342 was created on 14 March 2011. JSR107, or JCACHE, is included: In JSR342′s words: The following new JSRs will be candidates for inclusion in the Java EE 7 platform: Concurrency Utilities for Java EE (JSR-236) JCache (JSR-107) … Isn’t JSR107 inactive? But how could this happen if JSR107 is inactive? Well the answer [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/news-on-jsr107-jcache-and-jsr342-java-ee-7/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/ehcache-distributed-cache-or-nosql-store/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/ehcache-distributed-cache-or-nosql-store/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:40:35 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=401 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/ehcache-distributed-cache-or-nosql-store/";Is Ehcache a NoSQL store? No, I would not characterise it as that, but I have seen it used for some NoSQL use cases. In these situations it compared very well — with higher performance and more flexible consistency than the well-known NoSQL stores. Let me explain. Read more…]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/ehcache-distributed-cache-or-nosql-store/feed/ 0 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:47:26 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=399 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/";Check out my Google Tech Talk on The Essence of Caching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TszcAWgCXD0]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/03/new-google-tech-talk-the-essence-of-caching/feed/ 1 http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/ http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:46:44 +0000 Greg Luck http://gregluck.com/blog/?p=392 dzone_url = "http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/";Ehcache 2.4 launches today. The big new feature right in the core of Ehcache 2.4 is Search. It uses a new fluent API which looks like this: Results results = cache.createQuery().includeKeys().addCriteria(age.eq(32).and(gender.eq(“male”))).execute(); In short, it lets you further offload the database. With Ehcache now supporting up to 2TB and linear scale-out you can do more than ever. What is [...]]]> http://gregluck.com/blog/archives/2011/02/ehcache-2-4-with-the-new-search-feature-is-out/feed/ 3