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No, the benchmark is not pure marketing. Why would you claim that it is? Apart from Astyanax, which clients are token aware? That paper is very useful so thanks for posting the lin…

Firstly, these sorts of applications are always going to be more read heavy so the reads are more important. Secondly, Cassandra cannot and will not be as good as something like Co…

By itself SOA doesn't do anything but it does free you up to do other things that allow you to scale like read-write separation and event driven or fan-out caching. One of the most…

What is most interesting to me is that in many ways they have reinvented Couchbase. I think that the only reason they didn't go with this technology was the financial cost for thei…

Not if you want strong consistency. Cassandra's performance sucks in comparison with the likes of MongoDb or Couchbase when reading with strong consistency since the clients have n…

So Memcached then...

It's the difference between empirical research and phenomenology and one of the things that makes Psychology a) a bit woolly compared to other sciences and b) a lot more interestin…

There actually a lot of low latency stuff being done in Java now. Using the Azul Zing JVM and tricks like the Disruptor you can do some amazing stuff.

When it came out, Spring was massively different from J2EE. "J2EE Development without EJB" was mindblowing for the Enterprise community back in 2004