gregw

Wednesday Aug 04, 2010

ITConversation podcast on Cometd and Push Technology

Phil Windley of Tecnometria has recorded an interview with me on Cometd and Push Technology.  The podcast is available from ITConversations and provides an introduction to comet and cometd.[Read More]

Wednesday Jun 23, 2010

Cometd-2 Throughput vs Latency

With the imminent release of cometd-2.0.0, it's time to publish some of our own lies, damned lies and benchmarks.  It has be over 2 years since we published the 20,000 reasons that cometd scales and in that time we have completely reworked both the client side and server side of cometd, plus we have moved to Jetty-7.1.4 from eclipse as the main web server for cometd.[Read More]

Wednesday Mar 11, 2009

Cometd Acknowledged Message Extension

With the release of the latest cometd-jetty in Jetty 6.1.15, the oft requested feature of reliable message delivery is now supported by the Acknowledged Message Extension in the jetty server and in the dojo and jquery clients... ... provide an acknowledged message mechanism for reliable message delivery.[Read More]

Friday Apr 11, 2008

Jetty Improves in Netcraft survey (again)

As with most open source projects, it's very hard to get a measure of who/how/where/why Jetty is being used a deployed.  Downloads long ago became meaningless with the advent of many available bundling and distribution channels.   The Netcraft Web Survey is one good measure, as it scans the internet and identifies which server sites run. In the results released April 2008, Jetty is identified for 278,501 public server, which is 80% of the market share of our closest "competitor" tomcat. If we exclude unknowns and others catagory, Jetty is currently 12th in the league table of identified servers of all types and closing in on a top 10 ranking .
[Read More]

Tuesday Jan 08, 2008

20,000 reasons why Jetty scales

I have published a comet Daily article that describes how I have benchmarked Jetty's Cometd implementationof dojox Bayeux protocol to 20,000 simultaneous clients.  This blog looks at the same results from a more Jetty centric view point.[Read More]

Monday Feb 19, 2007

Clustering cometd with Terracotta.

I recently attended a Torino JUG meeting and saw Jonas Bonér speak about transparent clustering with Terracotta. It was an interesting talk and went a long way to alleviating the concerns I have with the star architecture of terracotta. Thus I wanted to try out a terracotta cluster, but I thought that simply clustering HTTP session in jetty was a bit obvious, easy and above all boring. So instead I used terracotta to cluster the jetty implementation of cometd.[Read More]

Webtide

Calendar

Tags

Search

Links

Navigation