Scaling

Asynchronous Job Execution in the Cloud @ JavaOne

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4 months ago
by Alex Snaps in , , ,

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

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11 months ago
by Alex Snaps in , , ,

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…

Ehcache’s Writer API Screencast

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11 months ago
by Alex Snaps in , , ,

A common pattern to offloading the database is to use a cache in front of it. Yet, generally, it’s still application code that goes to the underlying system of records for writes. It also then becomes responsible for invalidating or updating cached entries.

Using cache writers can not only automate that aspect, but also enables you to scale your writes. This 5 minute screencast explains how to use Ehcache Writer API to achieve this and what it means to your application code: especially in distributed environments when clustering your caches with Terracotta, the contract becomes looser than More >

To be relational or not to be relational, that’s not the question

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11 months ago
by Alex Snaps in

Sergio Bossa and myself gave this presentation at jFokus (Stockholm, Sweden) and Codemotion (Rome, Italy). Here’s the slidedeck

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