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Asynchronous Job Execution in the Cloud @ JavaOne
04 months ago
I’ll be presenting “Asynchronous Job Execution in the Cloud” (
Session ID: 24301) later this week at JavaOne in San Francisco. The session will be held in the Hotel Nikko (Carmel I/II) on Wednesday Oct. 5, at 1pm. I will cover how deployment topologies requires us to rethink how we go about job execution. As we moved from one machine to multiple and now even to ever changing environment, we need better tools to express the requirement of our job so that we can leverage IT infrastructures optimally and keep the throughput of our applications as high as possible. I plan on covering this More >
Quartz Where Screencast
011 months ago
Here is a small introduction to the new Quartz Where feature that was just released as part of the Terracotta 3.5 Enterprise Edition.
I’ll be posting another screencast with some demo application benefiting from the feature, including the couple of steps required to migrate the application to use Where…
Quartz Where!
31 year ago
One week ago we released the first beta of our Fremantle release, which includes Ehcache 2.4, Terracotta Enterprise Suite 3.5 and at last but not least Quartz 2.0. You have been able to cluster your Quartz Scheduler instances using Terracotta for a while already. Yet, as with a JDBC backed storage, you had no control over what node your job would be executed on. The only guarantee was that your job would be executed once within the cluster. Quartz Where aims at addressing exactly that, and is one of the many new features that are part of this new major release of our product line.
A popular More >