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Ari Zilka on RAM is the New Disk & BigMemory by Ari Zilka Posted on Aug 16, 2011 Terracotta creator Ari Zilka talks about about the RAM is the new disk and argues for scaling up before scaling out, comparing the architectural approaches of lots of VMs with small heaps vs. a few JVMs with very large heaps. Ari introduces BigMemory, a Java add-on to Enterprise Ehcache, which allows app designs with huge amounts of memory accessible in-process, with minimal garbage collection.

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Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache by Ari Zilka and Matthias Matook Posted on Dec 06, 2010 Matthias Matook and Ari Zilka share the real-world experience of implementing Enterprise Ehcache at Australia's most visited online news sites. The talk will focus on the challenges and technical solutions to deal with massive page hits, high concurrency and how to achieve linear scalability without additional hardware.

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Scaling Your Cache & Caching at Scale by Alex Miller Posted on Jun 07, 2010 Alex Miller explains shortly why caching is useful, followed by examples of typical difficulties encountered when setting up a cache, like large datasets, data eviction, stale data, replication, loading, duplication. Miller also discusses available choices for designing a distributed caching architecture, and ways to test a cache for performance.