Tech Jargon - 16 Dec 2008


  • Content Delivery Network - A network of Servers delivering cached content (generally images, flash and scripts) to improve performance of a site.

  • Akamai - A leading CDN company providing services to comapnies like SONY, Yahoo and Microsoft.

  • Embryonic Connection - A TCP connection which is not completely established.

  • Terracotta - is an open source JVM-level clustering software for Java. It delivers clustering as a runtime infrastructure service, which simplifies the task of clustering a Java application immensely, by effectively clustering the JVM underneath the application, instead of clustering the application itself.

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