1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, California 94043

The Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG (SV-WEB-JUG) meets on the third Tuesday of the month at Google. Our meetings are always free to attend and open to the general public.

Advance Registration at http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com is required to be part of the give-away drawing. This meeting is being co-sponsored by our sister JUG, the Silicon Valley JUG.

18:30-19:00 Arrive & mingle over food & drinks
19:00-20:30 Terracotta Presentation

Within every innocent web application lies a sleeping monster. There comes a time when every successful web application outgrows its single-machine architecture. Whether for high-availability, scalability, or both, the adult web application must grow to live on more than one application server. That’s when the latent beast strikes: the State Monster. The most recent accepted wisdom about solving application state problems in a scaled-out production architecture is to make your web application “stateless”—i.e., externalize all application state out of the application tier so that any application server can serve any user request. Unfortunately for the owners of such applications, making it “stateless” is hard to do, corrupts the programming and data model of the application, and pushes the problem out to other pieces of infrastructure that are ill-equipped to handle it. Stateless programming is hard on the application developer, hard on the application infrastructure, and hard on the application. There must be a better way to write business applications. In this talk, Orion Letizi will discuss the current “stateless” application paradigm, its shortcomings, and a new alternative using Terracotta’s open-source availability and scalability technology for the Java Virtual Machine.

Please be sure to preregister at http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com/ so
you will be eligible for our raffle. Currently, the prizes include an IntelliJ IDEA license from JetBrains and the following books: Ajax Security from Adison Wesley, Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components from Apress, Filthy Rich Clients from Addison Wesley (2 copies), Professional Hibernate from Wrox Press, Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework from Wrox Press, Professional Ajax 2nd Edition from Wrox Press.

Official Website: http://sv-web-jug.eventbrite.com

Added by van_riper on February 17, 2008