Have you heard about Coherence before? Probably yes. It’s one of those famous in-memory grid solutions promising awesome fast data access and unlimited space for your frequently used data. Some of it’s well know competitors are Infinispan, Memcached and Terracotta Ehcache. They are all great and the worst part with Coherence probably is, that it is NOT open source. This is the ...

More on the Open World side of happenings one big and probably unexpected announcement was that Oracle is finally supporting the cloud movement and offering their own public cloud service. Beside the official announcements, some more or less content-less posts on The Aquarium (here and here) you don’t find a lot of information what exactly to expect from the offering. ...

JavaOne is nearly one week behind us already and I am still working on the detailed blog posts about it. One thing I was really surprised of is the fact, that I didn’t see a single mention about an update to my favorite application server out there. Yes, I love the WebLogic product. Since the beginning. Even if Oracle is ...

A lot has been written about this and this basically should be common knowledge, but talking to different people out there and looking at the efforts Google takes to improve page speed it seems to me that the topic is worth a second and current look. The basics HTTP compression, otherwise known as content encoding, is a publicly defined way ...