Designing a Heavily Loaded REST Application with Java, Take 2

"One of the world's leading antivirus solutions is called avast!. To get the latest information on viruses, the avast! clients connect to a back-end RESTful Web application. This presentation discusses how to develop such a heavily loaded application on Java with Project Jersey. It starts with an overview of the application architecture and then provides details on the following design aspects:
Asynchronous request processing
• HTTP request parsing optimizations
• Lightweight container (Grizzly, Netty) integration
• Jersey (JAX-RS RI) integration
• Apache Cassandra integration
When appropriate, the the session includes some code snippets and/or live demonstrations to depict the presented functionality."