Our next meeting will be held online, courtesy of Elluminate Live, between 5pm and 7pm MST on November 11th. Our speaker will be Alex Miller of Terracotta who will be talking about "Scaling Your Cache and Caching At Scale".

Caching has been an essential strategy for greater performance in computing since the beginning of the field. Nearly all applications have data access patterns that make caching an attractive technique, but caching also has hidden trade-offs related to concurrency, memory usage, and latency.

As we build larger distributed systems, caching continues to be a critical technique for building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency applications. Large systems tend to magnify the caching trade-offs and have created new approaches to distributed caching. There are unique challenges in testing systems like these as well.

Ehcache and Terracotta provide a unique way to start with simple caching for a small system and grow that system over time with a consistent API while maintaining low-latency, high-throughput caching.

Alex Miller is a Tech Lead with Terracotta Inc, the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, languages, and software design. Alex enjoys tweeting as @puredanger and blogging at http://tech.puredanger.com. In St. Louis, Alex is the founder of the Lambda Lounge group for the study of functional and dynamic languages and the Strange Loop developer conference.

To join this meeting, you must have Java 5 or later installed along with Java WebStart. Click the link below from your browser, enter your name and wait for the Elluminate Live! software to download. You will be connected to the CJUG session automatically. The link will only work from 4.30PM MST on Wednesday 11th November.

To join the meeting, CLICK HERE.