Nati Shalom’s Blog: Why most large-scale Web sites are not written in Java
…similar solutions for addressing the scalability challenges:
On the Data Tier we see the following:
1. Adding a caching layer to take advantage of memory resources availability and reduce I/O overhead
2. Moving from a database-centric approach to partitioning, aka shards
On the Business Logic Tier:
3. Adding [...]

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More tiered compilation
… a repository of information collected from one run and used on another run is on the list for things we want to do in Dolphin. It’s actually on the runtime groups list but we will certainly take advantage of it. There has also been talk of using annotations to give the jit [...]

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Java Portability
…this program below does nothing visible on Solaris, but prints “hello” with Sun Java SE on Linux and Windows:
public class Foo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
System.out.println(”hello”);
}
}
First impressions of this program’s behavior on Solaris roughly translate to “The hell you say!” followed by “Java is broken on Solaris!” There are a number of “symptoms” [...]

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Musings on software » Why choose cmp
…consider the strengths in performance and reduction in development that can be added by leveraging a high-quality CMP container as opposed to developing data access logic using a BMP architecture. I guarantee you’ll be happy with the results.
Excellent post! I couldn’t agree more, the debate mirrors the one around [...]

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Jon Masamitsu’s Weblog
The amount of live data that is in the tenured generation is too large. Specifically, there is not enough free space in the tenured generation to support the rate of allocation into the tenured generation.

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