What is Terracotta?

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Derek Mahar picture Derek Mahar · May 3, 2010 · Viewed 22.4k times · Source
  • What is Terracotta?
  • What services does it offer?
  • What problems does it solve?
  • What other products solve problems similar to those that Terracotta solves?

Answer

stefanglase picture stefanglase · May 3, 2010

Find a great article about Terracotta and how it works at InfoQ written directly by Orion Letizi, co-founder and software engineer at Terracotta:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/open-terracotta-intro

It helped me to prepare for a webcast about terracotta and how it can be used for clustering and scaling grails applications and gave me a good overview about Terracotta.

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