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RAM prices have plummeted and servers with tens or even hundreds of Gigabytes of memory have become common these days. What this means to your application’s architecture and deployment topology is important. On heap caching of data within enterprise application is a common example.
Yet how do you make the best use of all that memory ? Since version 2.5, Ehcache comes with the ability to size your caches in bytes rather that in entry counts. Nothing really fancy, if it wasn’t for Java’s lack of sizeOf function. This presentation will ...