Ever wondered how Liferay's internal clustering works? I had to dig into it in context of my other article on globally load balancing Liferay across separate data-centers. This blog post merely serves as a place for my research notes and might be helpful for someone else who is trying to follow what is going on … Continue reading Liferay clustering internals
Month: May 2014
Clustering Liferay globally across data centers (GSLB) with JGroups and RELAY2
Recently I've have been looking into options to solve the problem of GSLB'ing (global server load balancing) a Liferay Portal instance. This article is a work in progress... and a long one. Jan Eerdekens states it correctly in his article, "Configuring a Liferay cluster is part experience and part black magic" .... however doing it … Continue reading Clustering Liferay globally across data centers (GSLB) with JGroups and RELAY2
Testing yas3fs: a distributed S3 FUSE filesystem
I've recently been doing quite a bit of evaluation of a few S3 filesystems, one in particular is yas3fs which so far is quite impressive. I plan on doing a more detailed post about it later, however for now I'd like to share a little tool I wrote to help me in my evaluation of it. You … Continue reading Testing yas3fs: a distributed S3 FUSE filesystem
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