Category Archives: Software Engineering

Clustering Guice Java Web Applications

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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Setting Up Memcached As A Windows Service

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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Where Does Wicket Store It’s DiskPageStore Files?

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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5 Minute Guide to Clustering – Java Web Apps in Tomcat

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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