The Definitive Guide to Terracotta

Clustering the JVM for Spring, Hibernate, and POJO Scalability

Published By Apress

We're pleased to announce the availability of our new book, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta, from Apress, the publisher of the popular Definitive Guide series of technical books.

This book is intended as a guide for developers and architects using Terracotta. It provides detailed explanations of Terracotta's scaling engine, as well as user best-practices, recipes and prepackaged frameworks. Also included in the book are several pragmatic real-world case studies designed to empower readers to build scalable Java applications without the trade-offs between high availability and performance that tend to occur today.

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Chapter One, entitled Theory and Foundation: Forming a Common Understanding covers the origins of Terracotta, its architecture, how it honors the Java memory model while delivering high availability, scalability, and performance with fewer trade-offs, and common use cases for Terracotta, such as

• Replication of user and application session data,
• Distributed caches,
• Offloading overburdened databases, and
• Workload partitioning.

The code for the sample applications discussed in the book is also available for download by Terracotta community members.

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