Scalability

The Importance of Distributed Caching

Over the past year we've seen more and more articles here on JavaLobby about distributed caching. Terracotta, in particular, have been at the forefront of many...

0 replies - 2163 views - 11/16/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Application Clustering For Scalability and High Availability

Application clustering is a sub-topic of “Parallel Computing”. Today many types of software support parallel computing in some form. Why do we need...

3 replies - 2287 views - 10/13/09 by Ibrahim in News

dynaTrace's Continuous APM System Improves Performance, Scalability

dynaTrace, a provider of performance management and monitoring software, today unveiled the latest release of its third-generation continuous APM system.  The...

1 replies - 1869 views - 09/29/09 by CodeJustin in News

Terracotta acquires Ehcache

Terracotta today announced the purchase of privately-held Ehcache, a Java caching solution that ships as a component within many other Java products including...

0 replies - 2803 views - 08/18/09 by CodeJustin in News

How Hadoop Map/Reduce works

In my previous post, I talk about the methodology of transforming a sequential algorithm into parallel. After that, we can implement the parallel algorithm,...

4 replies - 6424 views - 12/16/08 by riho in Articles

Free Open Source Test Workshop: Selenium, soapUI, TestMaker

Free workshop to be held in Los Angeles/Anaheim, San Francisco, Chicago, NY, and London. Software developers, QA testers, and IT managers are challenged to...

0 replies - 1991 views - 09/24/08 by Frank Cohen in Announcements

Scale-out Appserver GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 released

GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 has been released. XAP, the eXtreme Application Platform, is an application server designed from the ground up to scale out, with...

0 replies - 3424 views - 09/22/08 by Joseph Ottinger in Announcements

Caching, Parallelism and Scalability

When your boss asks you to rewrite your application to be more performant and handle greater throughput, what do you do? Once upon a time, when Moore’s Law...

8 replies - 18402 views - 09/18/08 by Manik Surtani in Articles

Apache PIG: Processing Language for Map/Reduce

In my previous article, I introduced the Map/Reduce model as a powerful model for parallelism. However, although Map/Reduce is simple, powerful, and provides...

7 replies - 5325 views - 05/28/08 by riho in News

Design for Scalability

Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume...

6 replies - 4876 views - 05/27/08 by riho in News