This was my first visit to the OJUG and it was a great experience. Lots of pizza and drinks. A handful of recruiters, who if you want, you can turn the conversation about their jobs VS them trying to hire you. In fact met up with my recruiter from TekSystems while I was there, always […]
Category: Java
High Performance Image Caching: From WMS to Proprietary Solutions
I have focused a lot of time optimizing a system very much like Google maps, except for the exact opposite data set, extremely volatile data. Without focusing on the details of the project, this data could change every 6 hours, to ever 15 minutes. Being service oriented and the difficulty to visualize this dataset had […]
Ehcache and Terracotta for the Enterprise Caching Solution
Performance always becomes priority one after the proof of concept, no matter how hard we argue to refactor the prototype. But we as developers adapt and move forward. So your system produces an output, of course there are enhancements you could make to this process, but the biggest enhancement will be to cache the outputs […]