Speakers


Ari Zilka

CTO and Co-Founder, Terracotta, Inc.

Ari Zilka
Ari is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, such as SpringOne, QCon, Devoxx, and JavaOne, where this year he accepted the 2009 Java Everywhere Duke's Choice Award for Terracotta.

Before founding Terracotta in 2003, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Before joining Accel, Ari was the Chief Architect at Walmart.com, where he led the innovation and development of the company's new engineering initiatives. At Walmart.com, he built and led a team of core engineers focused on performance management, and operations cost-saving measures.

Prior to Walmart.com, Ari worked as a consultant at Sapient and before that at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. During these years, he managed development and advised businesses on high technology strategy and deployment. His accomplishments at Sapient include the successful launch of Walmart.com, as well as successful engagements with Gap.com and Nike.com. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers, he worked with Harrod's of London, Siemens, Intel, Compaq, Barnes & Noble, and others.

Ari's career started as a software engineer for a subsidiary of Motorola, where he wrote groundbreaking wireless paging software. Since then, his software development accomplishments also include projects revolving around statistical analysis and data warehousing. In the mid 1990's, Ari invented a new object relational database that still exceeds the capabilities and performance of database technology today.

Ari holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Computer Science as well as in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley.



Presentations

Terracotta - Ehcache, Hibernate, and Database Performance and Scalability in Real Apps

Spring has made writing enterprise apps a lot less complicated, but the getting performance and scalability you need can still be a challenge. With its recent acquisition of Ehcache and the newly released Terracotta for Hibernate, Terracotta has built a line of distributed cache products that can help Spring developers build fast scalable applications with a lot less hassle.

In this presentation you'll learn how to get high performance and scale using Terracotta as the engine for Ehcache and Hibernate performance. Ari will walk you though the details of real customer applications where Terracotta has been used with Ehcache and Hibernate to achieve 30-90% database offload, 10 times the application throughput, and reduce application latencies to the single-digit millisecond range. Also, get insights into the Terracotta product roadmap and learn about some new features being built for Ehcache

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