Author: Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003.

Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.

Tuning Memory Use in ehcache

In ehcache-1.2 the DiskStore asynchronous spooling was reworked and made much faster. It is now possible to fill the spool very quickly. This gives great cache performance but creates a new problem, temporary memory consumption in the spool thread. The problem has arisen because data is hitting the spool so fast now that the actual… Continue reading Tuning Memory Use in ehcache

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We have a Python

We have a Python based monitoring application that regularly tops the CPU list, using more CPU than the application it is monitoring. I am a bit of a newcomer to Python. It is in stable 8th position on the Tiobe programming index (http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm). It is mature, has tons of libraries available for it and is… Continue reading We have a Python

Can Google be used

Can Google be used to measure the popularity of something? Maybe. That is the approach of the famous TIOBE Programming Community Index. ( See http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm). As the maintainer of an open source project, it is something I look at. I am happy to that ehcache now returns more results than any other Java cache with… Continue reading Can Google be used

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You may not realize it, but the state of your workspace has a massive effect on your stress levels. Often, the people who work in a cluttered environment deal with avoidable yet ever-present stress. This effect will not be a good influence on your psyche, let alone your work. That’s why it’s a good idea to take… Continue reading Untitled

Explorer Destroyer

Whenever a nasty IE bug comes out I always fantasize about putting that up on my blog. The problem with acting on that desire is that it is probably unlawful here in Australia and in many other jurisdictions. Plus you are potentially harming someone. So I don’t do it. Over the years I have gotten… Continue reading Explorer Destroyer

ehcache usage statistics

Since ehcache-1.2 was released a few days ago, there have been plenty of people taking a peek at it. It is sort of fun to look at the web traffic and downloads of ehcache since the project inception in 2003. The first jump happened in December 2004 with the release of ehcache-1.1. There was steady… Continue reading ehcache usage statistics

ehcache-1.2 released – distributed caching, listeners and more

After 10 months of development, ehcache-1.2 has been released. Thanks to all the developers who contributed to the release through feature requests, bug reports and patches during the beta program. The 1.2 release of ehcache has many new features including: Flexible, extensible, high performance distributed caching. The default implementation supports cache discovery via multicast or… Continue reading ehcache-1.2 released – distributed caching, listeners and more