Java cloud platforms

Cloud computing applies the resources of many computers in a network cluster to a single problem at the same time. Once confined to scientific or technical problems that require a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data, cloud platforms are now being leveraged to offer enterprise developers more scalable server resources.

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  • News 19 Apr 2011

    The backlash against the data grid JSR and JCP reform

    The recent backlash against Red Hat's data grid JSR proposal sparked interest as the JCP is going under reform right now. By raising the new JSR, Red Hat has gotten their desired result of getting JSR-107 moving again to complete the caching work. Continue Reading

  • News 18 Apr 2011

    With Coherence 3.7, Oracle Continues to Drive Innovation in the Data Grid Market

    The interesting thing about this latest product release is the work and effort the Coherence team seems to be putting into efficiently managing the capacity handling of the underlying Java Virtual Machine infrastructure upon which coherence lives. Continue Reading

  • Feature 01 Feb 2011

    Developing for the cloud: How developing in the cloud is different

    The benefits of cloud computing have been widely touted – business agility, scalability, efficiencies and cost savings among the top – and companies are migrating and building mission-critical Java applications specifically for cloud environments at a growing rate. TheServerSide caught up recently with Bhaskar Sunkara, Director of Engineering at AppDynamics, an application performance company focused on Java and cloud applications, to discuss the challenges in developing Java applications for the cloud and managing them once they’re there. Continue Reading

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  • Feature 01 Feb 2011

    Scala and the cloud

    As the cloud becomes more popular, so does the functional programming language Scala. Don't worry though, it's Java compatible and it runs on a JVM. So why are people using it? Perhaps because it's so functional. Continue Reading

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  • Feature 01 Feb 2011

    Sharding in the Cloud

    I/O reads to non-virtualized datastores can be one of the biggest bottlenecks in applications that have been deployed to the cloud. One of the easiest ways to avoid this problem is to simply shard your database. Continue Reading

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