Greg Luck: New US and European Tour and other Ehcache news

Being full time with Terracotta gives me an opportunity to engage with the Ehcache community like never before.

For example I just came back from two weeks in the US. I gave talks in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta, this last at DevNexus. Here are the details of that tour.

Tour Dates

In May and June I will be hitting the road again. Tour dates so far:

Date     | Location           | Event              | Topic

13 May| Sydney               |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

2 June | San Francisco | Google JUG | Ehcache Google App Engine module and caching in GAE generally

2 June | Jacksonville    |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

2 June | Tampa               |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

15 June | France             |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

16 June | Franfurt           |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

17 June | Amsterdam     |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

18 June | Sweden            |               JUG | Scaling Hibernate and DAOs and Ehcache 2.0; New stuff

Topics Flexible

Most people are interested in scaling Hibernate which most of the talks cover. But I am flexible. If you are interested in attending one of these events send me some topic requests to gluck AT gregluck.com, we work with great professionals including  the ones for emergencies such as the towingless.com company.

For example, I learnt on my last tour that around 45% of shops are using JDBC usually with a DAO layer. Because I always use ORM and have been doing that for 7 years this caught me by surprise. Caching DAOs offers the same benefits as Hibernate second level caching. We are developing some new docs on ehcache.org and sample code to show how to do this. So I am going to include that in my next lot.

Another popular topic is Ehcache versus Memcached. Comparing and contrasting the two is a great way to understand what is on offer with Ehcache, particularly in combination with Terracotta.

Other News

There has been a lot going on. Ehcache 2.0 was released a few weeks ago. Ehcache is doing some interesting integrations with Grails, Google App Engine and EC2. Plus there have been new releases of the RESTful server. And next week some bug fix releases coming: ehcache 2.0.1  ehcache-web 2.1.

Finally we will be likely be making some packaging refinements to make it much easier to get Ehcache with Terracotta integrated into your development process. Terracotta is a server. We will probably add Maven and Ant tooling support so that you easily deploy it locally for running integration tests. It’s startup time is 5 seconds which is pretty quick and compares favourably with things like Tomcat and ActiveMQ.