http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog From Programmer, For Programmers Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:11:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Abstract 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 ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-distributed-scalable-and-highly-available-cache/ 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 ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2010/01/demystifying-terracotta-tim-async-scalable-way-to-off-load-db-updates-from-app-transaction/ 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 ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2010/01/joined-terracotta/ Abstract 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 ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/11/essential-components-of-terracotta-based-application/ Abstract In this small post we shall explore Terracotta, a leading pure Java Scalability platform. The discussion is based on the AtomicInteger example from Terracotta site, which shows how to implement a Cluster wide id generator (Actually it’s the Sequencer example, but to keep my steps simple had used AtomicInteger). The ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/11/getting-started-with-terracotta/ From the Javadoc … interface provides a way of decoupling task submission from the mechanics of how each task will be run, including details of thread use, scheduling, etc. An Executor is normally used instead of explicitly creating threads. Indeed, Executors provide a more robust and easy mechanism for decoupling of submitting ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/09/executors-in-action-part-1-the-life-cycle/ Folks after posting two articles in the series, I have decided to hold my work on this for a while. I am working of new MINA User Guide, and will be busy over there. However, this is not an end to this. May be sometime in the future, when I am ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/09/mina-vs-netty-series-closing-down/ "Use switch instead of if-else, its more readable and has better performance." I have to admit that this was one of my favorite code review comment. Until one fine day, while hacking Apache Sanselan's image format decoding function, I tried optimizing the code based on the same comments and while ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/08/if-else-vs-switch-%e2%80%93-which-is-better/ Apache Sanselan is a pure Java library for reading and Writing Image formats. It has recently graduated from Incubator and is now a proud member of Apache commons proper. In previous articles, we saw how to retrieve Image metadata and information. In this post we shall see how Sanselan guesses the ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/07/apache-sanselan-demystifying-how-sanselan-determines-image-format/ Apache Sanselan is a pure Java library for reading and Writing Image formats. It has recently graduated from Incubator and is now a proud member of Apache commons proper. In this article we shall see how to get Image metadata using Apache Sanselan. Let’s see how the code looks public static void main(String[] ... http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog/2009/07/apache-sanselan-retrieving-image-metadata-using-sanselan/