The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability (The Definitive Guide)

Get the definitive guide on all the fundamentals of Terracotta as well as user secrets, recipes, and prepackaged frameworks.

Written by Terracotta CTO Ari Zilka and his team, The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability covers the following:

High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other application) as well as Spring?based enterprise applications Everyday Terracotta using its prepackaged frameworks and integration recipes, including configuration and customization for your application tuning, no matter the scale Power user secrets available, including config modules, customized advanced performance tuning, SDLC, Maven, and more What you?ll learn See how Terracotta works fundamentally, and the user pieces and parts necessary for using Terracotta and its open source options. Learn and apply case studies involving distributed cache, Hibernate, Master/Worker, and HTTP Session. Understand thread coordination and advanced performance tuning. Use more advanced case studies involving Spring, POJOs, FOO, and more. Configure and create your own modules using the software development and deployment life cycle. Who is this book for?

This definitive book from the Terracotta team is for both developers and architects who want to learn the ?whats, wheres, whens, and whys? of the Terracotta scaling engine.

User review
Adequate, but,,
Adequate coverage of the Terracotta technology. Lackluster writing, poor examples. There are many many complications and minefields to using this wonderful technology in practice, and this book skips lightly over them.

The training courses at Terracotta offices are HIGHLY recommended, if you can afford them. You may then use this book and the online docs as a useful supplement. Be aware that much in the book or online docs is rapidly made obsolete or misleading given the quick evolution of the code.

User review
Nicely-written, hands-on
If you're interested in using Terracotta to cluster your Java application, I'd recommend skipping the documentation on Terracotta's site and going straight to this book. Getting up and running is a challenge, but this book does everything possible to make the process straightforward, especially if you're an Eclipse user like myself.

User review
Excellent Book on an interesting concept
Even if you don't want to utilize Terracotta, this book is still extremely informative about virtual heap, distributed caching and clustering concept. However, once you get to read what Terracotta is about and what problems it tries to solve, you will probably realize why and how to utilize this gem in your application. The book is an easy read, it's very informative, covers Hibernate and Spring integration, talks about HTTP session caching and more.

User review
Good even if you are not using Terracotta
This book goes into a lot of detail about how and why Terracotta was made. It goes into a lot of topics such as scaling, the jvm, synchronization, etc.
It talks about the philosophy of terracotta and goes through in detail about the choices that you have when for example, you have to scale, and the tradeoffs of each of those choices.
In short, this book is a good read, even if you are not going to be using terracotta just yet.

User review
Great book!
This book is a must for anyone trying to understand and get real performance out of a custom terracotta deployment.

There is a lot of information in this book that is either not on the terracotta wiki or is scattered across many sites.