Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache used in a wide array of applications to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Ehcache is robust, proven and full-features and this has made it the most widely used Java-based cache.

Chris Dennis will walk through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance, both when using Hibernate and when caching result sets directly. He will show us benchmarking tests the comparative application performance of Ehcache EX 1.8 versus MySQL, Memcached and a leading In-Memory Data Grid, including the impressive performance increases from the latest Terracotta 3.2 Server Array. Finally Chris Dennis will also discuss some upcoming features in Ehcache 2.0 such as JTA, bulk loading, the new Hibernate 3.3 provider and write-behind.

Speaker: Chris Dennis

Chris Dennis works remotely from Martinsburg, West Virginia as a developer for Terracotta Inc. At Terracotta he works on both the core Terracotta platform and also as a contributor to the Ehcache project. Prior to this he worked on the JPC x86 emulator at Oxford University. He has spoken twice at JavaOne (receiving a speaker Rockstar Award in 2007) and also at StrangeLoop 2009. He was also a co-author for the O'Reilly book “Beautiful Architecture”. 

Suggested Parking:

Park across the street in the parking garage on Elgin on the 3rd or 4th floor in the Visitor designated spots. Walk across the skybridge on the 3rd floor and take the elevators on the right side of the elevator lobby to the 10th floor.

Meeting Sponsor: Terracotta

Sponsor Website: http://www.terracotta.org/

Company Overview
We simplify development of fast, reliable, and scalable Java applications.

Terracotta is a software company and eponymous open source development project that delivers enterprise Java application scalability and availability. Terracotta also provides database scalability with Hibernate and high-performance distributed caching. This enables our customers to reduce their development efforts and ongoing operating costs.

Our community is home to some of the world's experts in building infrastructure that simplifies development of highly reliable, highly scalable, high performance Java applications. Core development is sponsored by Terracotta, Inc., a private company with its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

The Terracotta open source project has support from many open source companies including Spring, Tomcat and Geronimo and many thousands of community members.