Alex Miller
Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc.
Alex Miller is a Sr. Engineer with Terracotta Inc, the makers of the open-source Java clustering product Terracotta. Prior to Terracotta, Alex worked at BEA Systems on the AquaLogic product line and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His interests include Java, concurrency, distributed systems, query languages, and software design. Alex enjoys writing his blog at http://tech.puredanger.com and has spoken at a number of Java user group meetings and conferences.
In St. Louis, Alex is responsible for founding the Lambda Lounge, a user group for the study of functional and dynamic languages.
PRESENTATIONS
| Actor Concurrency |
| Collections Master Class |
| Ehcache Complete |
| Java 7 Preview |
| Java Concurrency Gotchas |
| Java Concurrency Idioms |
BOOKS
The Definitive Guide to Terracotta: Cluster the JVM for Spring, Hibernate and POJO Scalability (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Terracotta is a High Availability (HA) nth degree scaling and clustering engine for traditional J2EE and Java EE 5 applications (using Seam or other) as well as Spring-based enterprise applications. Written and officially authorized, this will likely be the first and only definitive book on Terracotta by Terracotta team led by Terracotta CTO. The book contains several pragmatic real-world case studies. These empower the reader to build highly scalable, optimized performing enterprise Java applications for financial and even gaming applications. Terracotta is now available in open source options at Terracotta.org.