Archive | Terracotta

09 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

So you want Distributed, Scalable and Highly Available Cache?

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So you want Distributed, Scalable and Highly Available Cache? If yes, then this is the right place for you. The Terracotta Ehcache release has these features inbuilt. The Express Installation mode has simplified Terracotta integration in your application.
How this post is organized
First we shall start with simple standalone cache and then see how Terracotta [...]

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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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26 November 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Essential Components of Terracotta based Application

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How does a Terracotta Application look like? What are the essential components that make up the application? These were the question I had after writing my first post “Getting Started with Terracotta”. Here I try to take a quick look at these questions from a Users point of view. Please note that this post doesn’t [...]

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