About Me
I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
More recently I created onmydoorstep.com.au, a place to find out more about where you live in Australia.
I'm also active in the open-source community with several projects ongoing.
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Author Archives: Richard Nichols
Clustering Guice Java Web Applications
Considering the origin of Guice (it’s use in Google Adwords, one of the largest apps on the Internet), it’s fair to say it should support clustering / session replication. There’s not much in the way of documentation around that aspect … Continue reading
Setting Up Memcached As A Windows Service
Memcached is an in-memory, distributed key-value store for random pieces of application data. It is useful for clustering and distributed caching and it (and similar tools) are becoming an increasingly common feature of large Web-based apps. I don’t like Windows … Continue reading
Where Does Wicket Store It’s DiskPageStore Files?
Wicket stores everything other than the current Page for a given user’s session (by default) in a second-level disk-based session cache. I’d never looked much into how it worked, until I wanted to know where these files were located. The … Continue reading
5 Minute Guide to Clustering – Java Web Apps in Tomcat
I’ve been taking a break from posting for the last couple of weeks. I was starting to get a bit run down, and feel like burn out was about to set in. The kind of blog posts I do take … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Software Engineering
Tagged apache, cluster, guides, Java, open-source, performance, web
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