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TransNexus makes software for VoIP operations and billing. Recently, they teamed up with Sun to improve the scalability of their NexSRS VoIP Peering Server. A joint engineering team determined that the use of a single-threaded web server was the primary scalability issue for NexSRS. To address this, they decided to migrate their front-end to GlassFish (and make use of its high-performance Grizzly HTTP Connector). |
The results were even better than expected. Not only was scalability improved (76% faster on a four-core system), even single-core performance benefitted (with a 23% improvement). Full details are available in the team's SDN Article: Making Java Technology Faster Than C with LRWP.
Correction: the original web server (Xitami) is not single-threaded, as suggested above. The team did, however, find that it in certain cases it exhibited scalability issues similar to a single-threaded process.
Added: Also see the longer Article at SDN.
