Scaling the Web: Lessons from Jetty, Bitronix, Terracotta, Quartz – Ludovic Orban | The Marco Show

The podcast explores web scaling and Java performance, drawing lessons from Jetty, Bytronix, Terracotta, and related technologies. Ludovic Orban, a software engineer at WebTight who maintains the Jetty web server, shares his insights on the evolution of web scaling from a buzzword to a complex reality involving millions of requests. He notes that while application-level code remains high-level, the underlying services have drastically changed due to the proliferation of multi-core CPUs. Orban recounts his experiences with Bytronix, a distributed transaction manager, and Terracotta, a JVM clustering solution, highlighting the challenges and trade-offs in distributed computing. He also touches on common performance mistakes made by Java developers, emphasizing the importance of understanding CPU architecture and memory management.