When Hazelcast started as a pure open source project in 2008, there was one guys, Talip Ozturk, with an amazing vision: A simple, powerful, scalable Distributed Map. Ever since Hazelcast went more powerful and added more features or data structures. Today almost all Java Collections and a lot of the
When I started snowcast back at end of 2014 I haven't thought that people will really be interested but most of the times it will work out differently from your imagination. A still fairly small group of interested people showed up and I got a lot of nice words and
snowcast In December I started a new project called snowcast. Arisen from the need in one of my own private projects I decided to open source this part of the work. snowcast is an auto-configuration, distributed, scalable ID generator on top of Hazelcast. Since snowcast is not an official Hazelcast
snowcast is an auto-configuration, distributed, scalable ID generator on top of Hazelcast [http://www.hazelcast.org]. Since snowcast is not an official Hazelcast project, Hazelcast will not offer any kind of commercial support for it, it is one of my private spare time projects! Why this project? While working on
Today I want to show how you can use nginx [http://nginx.org/] to build your own stateless loadbalancer which just redirects your requests to random servers. It does neither support sticky sessions nor does it proxy your request. It will redirect (HTTP 302) your original request to the random