Ehcache Server provides a RESTful API for cache operations. I am working on v0.9 and have been doing some performance benchmarks. I thought it would be interesting to compare it with the performance of that other over-the-network cache, Memcache. Now I already knew that Ehcache in-process was around 1,000 times faster than Memcache. But what… Continue reading Comparing Memcache and Ehcache Server Performance
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.
Upcoming Webinar: Memcached vs. Ehcache: Which One is Right for Me?
Deciding upon the best caching solution can be complicated. Some questions are: Which one offers the best performance? Which provides the highest availability? Which scales most effectively? Which is best for persisting large datasets? How can I guarantee that data is consistent for all users? Which is best for Java applications? Which is best if… Continue reading Upcoming Webinar: Memcached vs. Ehcache: Which One is Right for Me?
Debugging Ext JS in IntelliJ 9.0.2 (Maia IU.92.273)
I am working on Ehcache Monitor right now, which uses Ext JS. IntelliJ gives you the ability to debug both Java and JavaScript, which is really nice. Local Debugging To debug in IntelliJ you right click on a .html file and select Debug. Remote Debugging Set up a JavaScript Debug Remote configuration. See below for… Continue reading Debugging Ext JS in IntelliJ 9.0.2 (Maia IU.92.273)
Catch me at JUGs/SIGs in Brisbane, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta
I am doing some JUGs and a SIG in the US the first two weeks of March. And a JUG next Monday in Brisbane, Australia. The topics will vary from JUG to JUG but will have for most JUGs: Demo: How to configure Pet Clinic for use with Ehcache standalone and Ehcache EX with Terracotta… Continue reading Catch me at JUGs/SIGs in Brisbane, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta
Sign up for a Webcast I am giving 3 February: Boost application performance and monitoring with Terracotta Ehcache
I am giving a webcast next week. There is lots going on with Ehcache right now with new features. We have some impressive numbers to show off too. In this webcast learn how to use Terracotta Ehcache to get dramatically boost application performance. Terracotta Ehcache provides a high performance Hibernate second level cache that boosts… Continue reading Sign up for a Webcast I am giving 3 February: Boost application performance and monitoring with Terracotta Ehcache
How to contribute to Ehcache
The ehcache community is large and very active. People come up with great ideas to solve problems they come up against and often contribute patches to ehcache. The Ehcache project has always encouraged contribution of patches. If you are submitting a patch, please complete a Contributor Agreement. This ensures that we can accept the patch… Continue reading How to contribute to Ehcache
11 January 2010: ehcache-1.8, ehcache-core-1.7.2 and ehcache-terracotta-1.8
This is a final GA release of ehcache comprising ehcache, ehcache-core and ehcache-terracotta modules. This release contains some bug fixes to ehcache-core, but the notable change is the upgrade of the ehcache-terracotta module to support Terracotta 3.2. Terracotta 3.2 is dramatically faster than 3.1. See the changelog for complete details of ehcache-core changes. Note: If you… Continue reading 11 January 2010: ehcache-1.8, ehcache-core-1.7.2 and ehcache-terracotta-1.8
Ehcache Monitor Beta 2 released
We have had hundreds of people sign up for an play with beta 1 of the Ehcache Monitor. We have fixed over 15 bugs in Beta 1 and have released Beta 2. We have also created a roadmap for beta 3 which will add significant new features. See Ehcache Monitor Beta.
Ehcache Web 2.0 released
Ehcache Web has been part of Ehcache for years. In this release the web caching is split into its own module. The web module provides a filter based PageCachingFilter and PageFragmentCachingFilter which can be used with any Java web framework for caching of HTML, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML and other types. New in this release… Continue reading Ehcache Web 2.0 released
Ehcache welcomes Grails as a first-class supported framework
The Ehcache project is happy to welcome Grails to the fold. The new Grails 1.2RC1 uses Ehcache as the default Hibernate second level cache. We worked with the Grails community to test Ehcache with Grails to ensure a good developer experience. As part of that we have added a new Grails Chapter to the Ehcache… Continue reading Ehcache welcomes Grails as a first-class supported framework