Scalability the Terracotta Way
One of the theoretical advantages of Java-based Portals and Content Management
applications is the ability to cluster servers for better performance. But the
reality is that clustering is a black art that few vendors and implementation
teams really ever seem to master adequately. So it comes as a (welcome) surprise
to learn of an open-source technology that delivers many (if not most) of the
things customers want here, but in surprisingly quick, painless fashion, at
low cost, with no need to recompile code or stay up nights learning about disturbing-sounding
concepts like "STONITH" (shoot the other node in the head).