Terracotta Top 5ive

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.

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.)

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. 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

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

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