Terracotta Top 5ive

Forum post—"I would definitely recommend anybody else considering using Terracotta to download 2.6+ because this Cluster Stats Recorder implemented in 2.6+ is really amazing."

Announcement—Scarlet 1.0 Announced. Sourcesense announces general availability of their enterprise-grade clustering solution for Atlassian JIRA built on Terracotta.

Announcement—Compass/Lucene Terracotta Integration

Announcement—Clustering iPoint with Terracotta. Matt Brasier, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Java professional services firm C2B2, provides an in-depth case study of clustering iPoint portal with Terracotta.

Blog entry—"Thanks to Terracotta and your post about the message bus you did, we have stripped all J2EE out of our architecture making it much simpler for service developers, much faster, and much more scalable."—Comment on Mark Turansky's blog.

Ok... I know this is supposed to be top 5, but this deserves a shout-out...
Video—Lightweight Grids With Terracotta presentation by Cesario Ramos at the Portuguese Java User Group.

Blog Entry—I am overwhelmed with ideas and potential uses for Open Terracotta as well as mystified and amazed by its ease of use.

User Quote—"I have recently started using Terracotta and I'm absolutely amazed with how easy it is to cluster an application."

Blog Entry—The Future is here (and it's spelled Terracotta)

Blog Entry—My new favorite Java framework: Terracotta
(My favorite part of this blog entry is a comment at the end "A friend of mine recently made a JavaSpace implementation based on Terracotta. The code is really simple and it performs really well."

Blog Entry—Super scalable Java applications with terracotta and the Amazon elastic computing cloud (ec2).

Top 5 Terracotta Forum Posters (not including people who actually work for Terracotta)

1. jeg1972
2. erezhara
3. jamieqho
4. psebby
5. spido

1. Scarlet, Terracotta clustering for JIRA—SourceSense built clustering for JIRA. I can't wait for Confluence.
2. User Quote—Q: What were you using before Terracotta? A: Never thought to use anything else. Q: How has your experience been thus far? A: Very Good
3. User Quote—"Once again thanks for the support. I am really happy about this product... demo is really excellent also documentation is good. Within minutes i could run my own terracotta enabled application."&mdashForum User
4. User Quote:—" Whatever, I must admit, Terracotta is so cool: 'no api', 'no serialization', 'cluster wide transaction', 'LRU/LFU expiration', and so on."—Forum User
5. Happy open source birthday, Terracotta

1. Javapolis—Antwerp. Ari and Dwayne flew to Belgium to meet Geert at Javapolis.
2. Øredev—A conference in Malmö for software developers. Jonas went there and gave a presentation on Terracotta.
3. India—All over the place. Some of us went there on business, some of us went there to get married.
4. Wicket Meetup—Amsterdam
5. London—Ari went to London after Javapolis.

1. "Scaling JEE applications are hard? Have you heard of Terracotta?"

   makes scaling so easy a Caveman can do it...ps. and it is open source... i don't work for the company, i've been developing enterprise apps for about 9 years now..and i used terracotta in my last and it worked flawlessly..just spreading the word on a good solution to scale easy ur apps..—Jeryl Cook

   Ed—Jeryl was an early and is consistently our most pithy advocate.
2. "I am shocked by how much faster [Terracotta] is than the JBoss Cache based version of session clustering."—Forum User
3. "Man, this is super exciting!"—JRuby user
4. "it's really mind boggling :-)"—IRC user
   
   Ed—This one's actually Geert who now works for Terracotta, but he said it about his experience using it on RIFE continuations which was before he worked here and, I think, a big reason he decided to join.
   
   
5. "it's very liberating to be able to cluster very specific things without having to worry whether they are touched by the session or not" —Eelco Hillenius
   
   Ed—Eelco is another longtime friend of Terracotta who worked with us on our Wicket integration.
   
   

(Ok, I sort of cheated on this one... I've had these queued up for a long time, so some of them are from some months back. But, they're still good, so I put them in anyway.)

The Terracotta community is a fun place to play, but I've been struggling with the best way to get some of the awesome stuff that people are doing out into the open. I think I've finally found it: the Terracotta Top Five.

Every week (or so), I'll post the Terracotta Top Five: top five user quotes, top five cool things people have done with Terracotta this week, etc. I'm still working on this week's top five, so stay tuned.