Tag: distributed

Terracotta

The Terracotta Server provides powerful distributed in-memory data management capabilities for Terracotta products (such as Ehcache) and is the backbone for Terracotta clusters. A Terracotta Server Array can vary from a basic 2-node tandem to a multi-node array (Terracotta Server Array (TSA)) providing configurable scale, high performance, and deep failover coverage.

low level java clustering. i love that more and more infrastructure projects slap together a quick video to explain where they fit in

Amazon S3 cost savings

smugmug is saving massive amounts of money with S3

But wait! It gets even better! Amazon has been so reliable over the last 7 months (considerably more reliable than our own internal storage, which I consider to be quite reliable), that just last week we made S3 an even more fundamental part of our storage architecture. I’ll save the details for a future post, but the bottom line is that we’re actually going to start selling up to 90% of our hard drives on eBay or something. So costs I had previously assumed were sunk are actually about to be recouped. We should get many $100Ks back in cash. I expect our savings from Amazon S3 to be well over $1M in 2007, maybe as high as $2M.