Archive | January, 2010

25 January 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Exploring Terracotta tim-async - Scalable way to off-load DB updates from App Transaction

Lets start this chat with a small conversation
Manager: What are the options we have to increase the TPS of our SMSC Server?
Architect: Can you elaborate a bit on this?
Manager: As of now we process a request and update the Database in the same tranaction. Essentially, we are operating our Server at the TPS at which our DB [...]

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07 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Joined Terracotta

Finally, after a sprint of 9+ years at Hughes family, I started a new career. Started my work life with Hughes Software Systems in 2000, then joined Hughes Systique in 2006.
Year 2009 was a year of happenings for me. As I got more involved with Open Source software, my thoughts towards Software Development changed drastically. [...]

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