Scaling Java Applications

The latest episode from the guys at Java Posse provided an interesting insight into scaling large Java web applications.

Here are just a few of the technologies and concepts discussed which I should find the time to explore...

Terracotta

• Open source JVM-level clustering software for Java which clusters the JVM underneath the application rather than clustering the application itself

memcached

• Distributed memory object caching system with a second level cache available for Hibernate (hibernate-memcached)

Database Sharding

• A "shared-nothing" partitioning scheme for large databases across a number of servers