Make Your Apps Highly Available and Scalable

By Vinayak Joshi
Senior Software Engineer, IBM

The IBM premium data-sharing technologies offer unmatched high-availability and scalability to applications. If you are a JDBC application developer wanting to explore how these benefits accrue to your application and whether you need to do anything special to exploit these benefits, my article – “Increase scalability and failure resilience of applications with IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ” – is a great source of information.

In the article, I explain how turning on a single switch on the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ opens up all the workload balancing and high availability benefits to your JDBC applications. There is very little required for an application to unlock the workload balancing and high availability features built into the DB2 server and driver technologies.

For those curious about  how the driver achieves this in tandem with pureScale and sysplex server technologies, the article should provide a good end-to-end view. While all the nuts and bolts explanations are provided, it is stressed that all of it happens under the covers, and beyond the bare minimum understanding, application developers and DBA’s need not concern themselves with it too much if they do not wish to.

The aspects a developer needs to keep in mind are highlighted and recommendations on configuring and tuning applications are provided.  We’ve made efforts to keep the reading technically accurate while keeping the language simple enough for a non-technical audience to grasp.

Any and all feedback shall be much appreciated and taken into account. Take a look at the article by clicking here, and feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section below