New book: Performance of Open Source Applications, with a chapter on Infinispan

From the good folks who brought you the excellent Architecture of Open Source Applications (AOSA), available for free online, as a PDF, for e-book readers or as a good old-fashioned dead tree, we're now treated to a new tome - the Performance of Open Source Applications (POSA).

POSA follows the same concept as AOSA - a different authoritative figure in the open source community is responsible for each chapter, providing you with excellent insight on how some of the most popular open source applications have been designed and built.  POSA focuses specifically on performance rather than general software architecture, and I've contributed a chapter on the performance related work conducted for Infinispan (see Chapter 7).

Have a read, I'd love to know what you think.

Cheers
Manik

Infinispan 6.0.0.CR1 is available!

Dear Infinispan community,

We are proud to announce the first candidate release for Infinispan 6.0.0.

As many of you would expect from a candidate release this version
contains a multitude of bug fixes/enhancements to get to a stable
6.0.0 release.

For a complete list of features and fixes included in this release
please refer to the release notes. Visit our downloads section to find
the latest release and if you have any questions please check our
forums, our mailing lists or ping us directly on IRC.

Thanks to everyone for their involvement and contributions!

- Will