Boost Hibernate Performance 10x via the new Ehcache and Hibernate Cache provider

Kunal Bhasin from Terracotta will be giving a presentation on boosting the performance of Hibernate in your applications by 10x via the new Ehcache 2.0.0 and Hibernate Caching SPI provider.

Ehcache is an open source, standards-based cache used in a wide array of applications to boost performance, offload the database and simplify scalability. Ehcache is robust, proven and full-features and this has made it the most widely used Java-based cache.

Kunal will walk through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance, both when using Hibernate and when caching result sets directly.

He will show us benchmarking tests the comparative application performance of Ehcache EX 1.8 versus MySQL, Memcached and a leading In-Memory Data Grid, including the impressive performance increases from the latest Terracotta 3.2 Server Array.

Finally Kunal will also discuss some upcoming features in Ehcache 2.0 such as JTA, bulk loading, the new Hibernate 3.3 provider and write-behind.

About Kunal

Kunal Bhasin is a Senior Solutions Architect at Terracotta with many years of experience building a wide array of systems ranging from hard real-time projects at NASA-Ames to web/e-commerce applications. He has been at Terracotta for over three years and has been instrumental in some of Terracotta’s biggest deployments in terms of scale, performance and availability. He specializes in building and architecting highly scalable, highly available, fully fault tolerant and robust Java applications delivering peak optimum performance.

Kunal came to Terracotta from Infospace, where he built and architected components of server side infrastructure. Kunal’s key role at Infospace was to address scale, performance and availability of the server side components and to build components of the web stack. Prior to Infospace, Kunal led a team to build a Robotics test bed for Nasa Ames and a collaboration suite for Carnegie Mellon.

Kunal holds a M.S. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Pune University, India. Kunal grew up in Pune, India, and currently lives in San Francisco, California.