Ehcache is an open source, standards–based cache used in a wide array of applications to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Ehcache is robust, proven, and full–featured, and this has made it the most widely used Java–based cache.
Chris will walk through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance, both when using Hibernate and when caching result sets directly.
He will show us benchmarking tests on the comparative application performance of Ehcache EX 1.8 versus MySQL, Memcached and a leading In–Memory Data Grid, including the impressive performance increases from the latest Terracotta 3.2 Server Array.
Finally, Chris will also discuss some upcoming features in Ehcache 2.0, such as JTA, bulk loading, the new Hibernate 3.3 provider, and write–behind.