I thought I would share a few of the topics I am reading: Xmas Research//Distributed Systems The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines Luiz André Barroso and Urs Hölzle 2009- s00193ed1v01y200905cac006.pdf Lessons from Giant-Scale Services, Eric Brewer 2001 Xmas Research//Distributed Systems/untitled folder Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable Xmas Research//Distributed Hashtable/Chord (peer-to-peer)… Continue reading What I am Reading This Xmas
Where did Hibernate SVN go?
For those of you looking for the older Hibernate Subversion repository it is here: http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/core/trunk/ It is now on GitHub, but the older SVN is still useful for legacy.
Ehcache: The Year In Review
Is it that time of year again. A time for reflection and of New Year’s resolutions. I therefore thought this was good time to reflect on what has been happening with Ehcache. Ehcache and Terracotta got together in August 2009. We got our first combined release done with Ehcache backed by Terracotta three months later.… Continue reading Ehcache: The Year In Review
How to find Ehcache and Terracotta Webinars and Presentations
After many requests we have extracted our talks out of the mess that is Webex and have started posting them to ScreenCast. From there you can easily watch them without any sign in rubbish or embed them. See http://www.screencast.com/users/Terracotta
Introducing the Elephant Curve
While having a few drinks with some French-speaking colleagues at Le Meridien hotel in San Francisco during JavaOne 2010 I realised that French speakers have a cool name for a load phenomenon of online systems It is difficult to tune an online system for the average daily traffic volume because it varies a lot during… Continue reading Introducing the Elephant Curve
Support the petition to Apple to donate their Java implementation code to OpenJDK
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Ehcache BigMemory’s big speedup leading up to GA
Last month we made a big splash with our news of BigMemory, our add-on to Ehcache which creates very large caches in the Java process ((VLIPCCs) while still avoiding the achilles heel (hell) of GC pauses. We released charts on ehcache.org showing our performance up to 40GB of cache. Optimising for Byte Arrays. Why? We… Continue reading Ehcache BigMemory’s big speedup leading up to GA
Is it time to fork Java?
This year’s JavaOne was a dismal affair. Crammed into the Hilton hotel and Parc 55, the feeling was that Oracle had ruined the conference. And the dual conference idea also caused Java people problems: those that tried to attend the key note at Moscone with JavaOne passes were turned away – instead needing to go… Continue reading Is it time to fork Java?
Now for the details: Ehcache’s BigMemory Off-Heap Memory Store
Today we released the press release for Ehcache’s new Off-Heap Memory Store. Later this week there will be a public beta. Tonight we released the documentation for it which you can get here.
Broadband in New England decided who will be the Australian Government
Well it has been a very West Wing few weeks here in Australia. A hung parliament, with 6 reps deciding the future Australian Government. In the end it came down to Tony Windsor, the member for New England, and broadband. New England is a region in the north of NSW which takes in Armidale right… Continue reading Broadband in New England decided who will be the Australian Government