
Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta
A real world case study of a consultancy that distributed the load & increased scalability of its applications using Terracotta using the Master/Worker pattern.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community

A real world case study of a consultancy that distributed the load & increased scalability of its applications using Terracotta using the Master/Worker pattern.
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Ari Zilka, co-founder and CTO of Terracotta, talks about the capabilities of Terracotta, the use cases it supports, and the rationale and impact of taking Terracotta to an open source model.

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Open Terracotta is an open-source, highly scalable, JVM-level clustering solution. As well as being a drop-in replacement for Tomcat Clustering, it can transparently cluster POJOs and Spring beans. This presentation will be an in-depth case study of a small mobile application built using Terracotta clustering.