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Mobile Website Using Grails
Enterprise Java

Grails Case Study: High Traffic Mobile Website Using the Weceem Plugin

For the past several years, Thorn Technologies had been hired to design and host the mobile website of a very large U.S. Tax Preparation company. This mobile site was built with the Grails Web Application Framework and uses the Weceem Content Management plugin. On average, the site received over 100,000 hits per day – significantly more during tax season. There were some lessons learned deploying this high traffic site that we are happy to share.

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Enterprise Java

Serialize HTML in JSON Using XSLT

I am working on a project that make heavy use of XSLT to covert XML data from a legacy system to JSON for an HTML5 Web Application. Converting XML to JSON is actually quite easy

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Mule Mongo Connector Fails Under Heavy Load

I am working on a Mule ESB project that processes a significant number of inbound HTTP requests. We have been using MongoDB to log a ton of data because, well, its just awesome. So I dropped the Mule MongoDB Connector (version 2.0.1) into my Maven pom.xml and had everything logging to mongo in minutes. “What a piece of cake!” I though. Everything was working great at first…until I threw a heavy load at it. It was then that I realized that the Mule Mongo Connector Fails Under Heavy Load. Keep reading to find out what caused the problem and see how I fixed it.

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