Gigapult is a project hosted on OpenSpaces.org to enable easy configuration of new spaces, written by Kirill Ishanov. Kirill, who placed second in the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge with Gigapult, spoke with GigaSpaces about what inspired the project, some of its details, and who's using it.

It's an excellent project, showing how a DSL can be used to remove difficulty from space deployment.

Leonardo Goncalves-Da Silva is the author of the GoDo project, a project that uses GigaSpaces XAP to distribute not only data, but a user interface, with GWT. He spoke to GigaSpaces last week about the project and some of its cooler features. GoDo is the winner of the 2008 OpenSpaces Developer Challenge.

Jason Carreira, author of the DomainProxy project and a winner (placing third) of the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge, talked with GigaSpaces about how DomainProxy works as an adapter for OpenJPA to store its data in a Space. Along the way, some details about how it works are handed out, as well as some of the future directions for the project.

Geva Perry Joins Owen Taylor in NY. They discuss the challenge of marketing GigaSpacesXAP, detail some exciting new initiatives for the GigaSpaces platform, and talk about SOA - particularly focusing on protocols and programming models vs runtime environments.

Owen Taylor speaks with Nati Shalom - CTO of GigaSpaces regarding the path taken to find and refine the vision behind GigaSpaces, the origins of SBA and its fundamental qualities, and how customers go about incorporating GigaSpaces XAP into their IT solutions.

Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces, and Shay Banon, Senior Architect, talk about how GigaSpaces moves from a tier-based approach to a service approach.

Shay Banon, Senior Architect at GigaSpaces speaks about the open-sourced OpenSpaces framework and how it fits within GigaSpaces XAP and how streamlines the process of development and deployment

Owen Taylor speaks with Uri Cohen & Alit Bar Sadeh and learns about the recently launched openspaces.org community website.

Guy Nirpaz, GigaSpaces' EVP R&D speaks about the testing and development technics and practices at GigaSpaces.

In this interview at Theserverside.com, Nati Shalom explores methodologies for achieving optimal application scalability. You will discover how to enhance scalability and performance of both the data tier and the entire application. You can also watch the video (hosted by TSS, registration is required).