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]
Posted at 11:57AM Aug 04, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
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]
Posted at 04:29PM Jun 23, 2010 by gregw in General | Comments[3]
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]
Posted at 06:54AM Mar 11, 2009 by gregw in General | Comments[1]
Jetty Improves in Netcraft survey (again)
Posted at 04:51PM Apr 11, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
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]
Posted at 04:12AM Jan 08, 2008 by gregw in General | Comments[5]
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]
Posted at 08:42PM Feb 19, 2007 by gregw in General | Comments[6]