Sydney Java User Group Meeting July 18, 2007

Pervasive Web Application Server Design
Serving Australia’s HTTP traffic with 100 x $2,000 computers
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Pervasive Web HTTP Application servers are an enabler for the network computer. As more people use these applications, their computing devices expand the network computing pool. This means execution occurs across devices. The advantages normally associated with high end distributed computing such as performance, availability, scalability and real time etc can be achieved on low-end, low cost devices.

Web 2.0 technologies that can achieve this also achieve 100x execution speed advantages over current technologies. Reliability, scalability and cost improvements are also typical. A $2,000 computer running Solaris / ZFS and a Java Web 2.0 application server will be used as the basis of this presentation. The architecture that supports 10,000+ concurrent users and 1% of Australia’s HTTP traffic using this configuration will be examined.

Key outcomes are practical pointers on the deployment of Web 2.0 technologies into conventional high volume web environments. This
includes a focus on the performance, availability and cost advantages.

Our Speaker: Philip Haynes
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A successful object technology and distributed computing practitioner,
Mr Haynes has a quantitative approach towards software engineering. He has developed high performance distributed computing designs for large scale web, mobile and pervasive computing markets. Major clients include News Limited, Vodafone, Tab Limited, Travelex and Toyota.

Official Website: https://sydneyjug.dev.java.net/