Re: persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-27 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:03 AM, Aristedes Maniatis a...@ish.com.au wrote: Thank you to Dan and Chris for your valuable comments. On 1/19/15 9:21 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: Question 1: Is the documentation still correct after all these years of BackupManager being used? Is it still considered

Re: persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-27 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
Thank you to Dan and Chris for your valuable comments. On 1/19/15 9:21 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: Question 1: Is the documentation still correct after all these years of BackupManager being used? Is it still considered of lower reliability? It's just saying that less people use it. Because

Re: persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-19 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Aristedes Maniatis a...@ish.com.au wrote: I have some applications currently using sticky sessions in tomcat 7. Everything works well except that restarting tomcat requires disabling mod_jk new sessions to an instance, waiting for sessions to expire and then

Re: [OT] persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel, On 1/19/15 9:21 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: I've not personally used memcache, but I have used redis, so I guess that's a similar approach. Are you using Redis for session persistence? The technology was a nice fit, but it didn't seem

Re: persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Aristedes, On 1/18/15 9:27 PM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote: I have some applications currently using sticky sessions in tomcat 7. Everything works well except that restarting tomcat requires disabling mod_jk new sessions to an instance, waiting

Re: [OT] persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-19 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Daniel, On 1/19/15 9:21 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: I've not personally used memcache, but I have used redis, so I guess that's a similar approach.

Re: [OT] persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dan, On 1/19/15 11:46 AM, Daniel Mikusa wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: Some things [memcached] cannot do: 1. Replicate to other nodes. You can do sharding, but it's pretty

persisting sessions best practices

2015-01-18 Thread Aristedes Maniatis
I have some applications currently using sticky sessions in tomcat 7. Everything works well except that restarting tomcat requires disabling mod_jk new sessions to an instance, waiting for sessions to expire and then several hours later restarting the instance. This process is slow and not