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Extreme Transaction Processing Patterns: Write-behind Caching

Lan Vuong shows how to optimize the performance of an application by leveraging the write-behind caching pattern which sends batch updates to the back-end database asynchronously within a user configurable interval of time, instead of doing sychronous write-through updates typical in web apps.

Lan Vuong
on Dec 07, 2009
Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta

A real world case study of a consultancy that distributed the load & increased scalability of its applications using Terracotta using the Master/Worker pattern.

Ben Teese James Heanly
on Feb 05, 2008
Yahoo's Doug Cutting on MapReduce and the Future of Hadoop

InfoQ's lead Java editor, Scott Delap, recently caught up with Hadoop project lead Doug Cutting. Hadoop is an open source distributed computing platform that includes implementations of MapReduce and a distributed file system. In this special InfoQ interview Cutting discusses how Hadoop is used at Yahoo, the challenges of its development, and the future direction of the project.

Scott Delap
on Sep 12, 2007
Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate

Gavin Terrill explores one of the lessor known facilities available to web developers, the humble "ETag Response Header", and how to integrate its use in a Spring and Hibernate based web app to improve application performance and scalability.

Gavin Terrill
on Jul 11, 2007
Interview: Frank Cohen on FastSOA

InfoQ today publishes a one-chapter excerpt from Frank Cohen's book "FastSOA". On this occasion, InfoQ had a chance to talk to Frank Cohen, creator of the FastSOA methodology, about the issues when trying to process XML messages, scalability, using XQuery in the middle tier, and document-object-relational-mapping.

Stefan Tilkov
on Apr 05, 2007
Web Applications with Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring

In this article we will first give you an overview of Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring, and after that show you how you can use these technologies together to enter a new dimension in writing stateful, conversational, scalable and highly available web applications.

Eugene Kuleshov Jonas Bonér
on Apr 03, 2007
Introduction to OpenTerracotta

OpenTerracotta is an open source enterprise-class JVM clustering solution that can take multi-threaded single-JVM apps and have them run across multiple JVMs with no code changes. Orion Letizi goes super-indepth on Terracotta and how it works, explaining how to do session replication, distributed caching, master/worker, and more.

Orion Letizi
on Feb 12, 2007
A Look at Common Performance Problems in Rails

Rails performance expert Dr. Stefan Kaes takes a look at the most common performance issues in your Rails applications and what to do about them. Advice is given regarding benchmarking, choosing a session container, caching results of expensive computations, optimizing database queries and working effectively with view helpers.

Stefan Kaes
on Jun 13, 2006