Event driven application architecture If you've been following Hackernews or my favorite, the Highscalability blog, you can't have missed the trend towards event driven server applications which are inherently different from the request-per-thread based design of traditional web applications. Event driven applications evolve around asynchronous, non-blocking APIs and use few threads, typically around the number … Continue reading Non-blocking JDBC with the Asynchonous Mysql connector
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Stateless user sessions with encrypted session IDs
When trying to design for stateless services one finds it easy to reduce the information stored in an http session but for one piece: whether the client has authenticated against the server or not. Usually you would implement a proccess for authenticating like this: Client submits credentials (login / password) to the server Server checks … Continue reading Stateless user sessions with encrypted session IDs
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