Implementing a real-life enterprise grade system can be tricky. Although over the years the microservices methodology has evolved to deliver agility, simplicity, and flexibility, it still lacks the ability to truly deliver low latency, massive throughput, and handle large amounts of volume. Furthermore, real-time microservices requires the ability to structure [...]
Over the past few months, we have seen XAP implementations running millions of transactions every second, across very large multi-terabyte, multi-billion items data grid clusters. XAP's ability to collocate incoming data with its processing logic together with the required reference data - allows it to generate a vast amount of [...]
It is understood that in today's fast-paced financial services environment, organizations that have access to the latest information have a significant advantage. But it's not enough to simply make deals—assessing risk and predicting outcomes has become a major staple of any winning transaction. With GigaSpaces XAP, enterprises can detect and [...]
Multi-Cloud deployment becomes the standard with every mission critical system. Financial services, IoT , Telecommunications , Logistics , Gaming , E-commerce, Healthcare and others moving into a deployment architecture that involves multi-geo deployment across on-premise data center and one or more cloud platforms. In this post we will take a [...]
Martin Fowler and James Lewis's microservices paper has been influencing many development teams and projects around the world. As such, this software architecture style has gained prominence among web-scale startups and enterprises. In this post, we'll look at how microservices related to SBA and GigaSpaces XAP. We will review the [...]
Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity - How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the cost of the expensive mainframe MIPS and COBOL-based development. Using [...]
I will be presenting next week (Wed , Nov 16 2011, 18:00 ET) at the NYC/NJ Windows Azure User Group. We will be presenting GigaSpaces Cloudify for Azure. It allows Java developers to On-board Java Applications to the Azure Cloud without any code changes. I will have a technical review [...]
By now, if you’re following GigaSpaces, you should probably have heard about our new Cloudify for Azure offering. In this post I’ll try to provide a high level overview of what this offering is about, how it was conceptualized, and what are its benefits for the end user. Cloudify – [...]
I will be having a session about Real Time processing with IMDG and NoSQL DB on Thursday, July 28th, 6:30 PM at the NYC NoSQL meetup. The session will cover the following: In-Memory-Data-Grid usage with NoSQL DB in financial , telecom , logistics and gaming related systems. The session will explain [...]
Recently, I was reading Todd Hoff's write-up on FaceBook real time analytics system. As usual, Todd did an excellent job in summarizing this video from Engineering Manager at Facebook Alex Himel, Engineering Manager at Facebook. In this first post, I’d...
Financial services applications produce reports constantly. Some of them produce reports where the data required for the report is generated over night via batch processing, and some other type of reports are produced instantly upon user request. This type of processing activity requires fast access to the raw data and [...]
When running system in production, the last thing you want to do is to shutdown the system. This could happen when: - You need to replace one of the machines running the system. - You need to upgrade one of the machines running the system. - You need to increase [...]
I recently read a book called: "Physics of the Impossible" by the theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. Dr. Kaku lists "Possible Impossibilities" and classifies these into different categories where all these "impossibilities" may happen in the near/distant future. When talking about "zero latency", I consider this something we can achieve today. The [...]
Our best practices wiki is growing rapidly and full with good and useful material. Here are few new best practices added lately: - Finding Partition Load – routing data based on partition load. - Even Data Distribution – simple example explains how to evenly partition application data. - WAN Replication Gateway – Simple blueprint for WAN replication scenario [...]
