+1 Try your best to make it all stateless, you should be able to in most cases. Then just use a load balancer, nginx is good for this.
On 26 Feb 2014, at 16:21, Howard W. Smith, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Romain Manni-Bucau > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> basically if you can be stateless or use sticky session you'll be >> really faster than using any cluster solution (that's the way apps are >> developped nowadays with rest etc...) but if you go with a clusterized >> server that's just a way to get a distributed cache integrated with >> the container (behind the scene that's the same). >> Romain Manni-Bucau >> Twitter: @rmannibucau >> Blog: http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com/ >> LinkedIn: http://fr.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau >> Github: https://github.com/rmannibucau >> >> >> > +1 these are some good points. > > Even tomcat committer/lead recommends to avoid clustering and it should be > last resort/option. > > and i am hearing that (REST) recommendation more often, now.
