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“As I’ve been blogging about recently, we have been developing an exam-taking web application at Terracotta to demonstrate the Session Clustering capabilities of Terracotta. Since one of the requirements of this web app is that we support 40,000 concurrent users, we thought we’d better cache the hottest exams (using Ehcache) rather than fetch them from Hibernate each time. Since modifying an exam should occur far, far less frequently than taking an Exam, and since Terracotta already supports Ehcache, this was a no-brainer.” source...