Whilst at a client site recently, I was asked to provide a list of articles I had written on various blogs that could still be considered relevant and possibly useful. So I am taking a little time to put them all in one place and hope they could be of use to someone.  I am trying to group them as meaningfully as I can.

• Clustering and HA
• The Tiers Of A Clone - High Availability Considerations: This is an introduction to some concepts relating to high availability (HA) in web applications...
• High availability clustering ColdFusion: Using ColdFusion Enterprise Manager: This is a piece I wrote for Adobe which details how to install ColdFusion 8 Enterprise and how to create a basic cluster...
• Vertical and Horizontal Clustering with ColdFusion: In this blog posting I wanted to illustrate an interesting concept, well two in reality, Horizontal Clustering and Vertical Clustering...
• A Possible Problem When Using Hardware Clustering:  This posting has an important point on how to make sure we correctly set up a hardware load balancing device to check for a "heartbeat" to make sure cluster members are still available...
  

• The JVM - Tuning
• ColdFusion Won't Start: What Do We Do Next? - If we look to the ColdFusion logs for help, we won't find anything because CF never started.  However, usually JRun or whichever J2EE container we are using usually has logged something for us in what is known in the Java world as the std-out.log...
• Details of Tuning A ColdSpring, Model Glue, Reactor Application On ColdFusion 8: This is a real world and recent example of tuning a ColdFusion application built in ColdSpring, ModelGlue and Reactor.  There is a good amount of detail on how we tuned the JVM in this piece...
• The Heart Of The Matter - The JVM: This piece details the pivotal part the JVM plays in the JRun and ColdFusion worlds, in particular...
  

• Database Design
• Data Warehousing Part 1 OLAP and OLTP: The first major stepping stone in understanding Data Warehousing is to grasp the concepts and differences between the two overall database categories...
• Data Warehousing Part 2 Dimensional Modeling: OLAP databases store historical data and are typically used for producing reports, analysis etc.  Data Warehousing projects are almost always based on an OLAP design and here we begin a review of Dimensional Modeling...