One of my favorite films that depicted the power of Machine Learning (ML) for predictive analysis is Moneyball (2011). In the film, Brad Pitt who plays Billy Beane, the Manager of the Oakland A's, hires a Yale Economics graduate who uses computer-generated analysis of historical data and predictive modeling to [...]
In the first installment of our blog series on what happens when real-time analytics meets Kubernetes, we discussed how Kubernetes has become the de-facto open source containerized orchestration tool, as well as some practical tips for a one-click Kubernetes deployment with GigaSpaces InsightEdge. In today’s article, we’re going to take [...]
I’m almost sure that when Da Vinci said “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” he wasn’t speaking about real-time AI, machine learning and transactional processing. And yet his words are ever so relevant when we think about overcoming the complexities of big data and analytics that enterprises are facing today. Our [...]
As the Financial Services industry becomes increasingly competitive, our customers are continuously striving to improve the quality of their services. They are leveraging their growing amount of data with innovative new services to optimize operations, reduce risk and enhance customer experience. The diagram below shows how banks prioritize customer experience, [...]
As a trusted advisor to many enterprise architects and e-commerce business executives – I thought I would share my experience with a trending technology evaluation across the industry’s biggest brands using a simple and hopefully fun to read analogy – Disney’s adaption of the age old children’s story, The Three [...]
At the heart of every big data solution, such as XAP, is data synchronization. While there are a number of solutions and approaches available today, they are either overly complex or incredibly inefficient. Fortunately, we have been able to combine a number of these protocols to achieve what is a [...]
Applications are written in diverse and often remote environments. Storing and accessing data needs to be simple and portable, which is why REST (representational state transfer) is often the go-to protocol for web services. And yet, using REST for data services can pose a number of challenges: Performance (clients should [...]
Strata + Hadoop World London 2016 we're on our way! Join us at Booth #331 to learn about our new Spark Distribution and hear the latest on XAP 11! We’re very excited to be in London and can’t wait to show you all the new things we have in [...]
We have just released XAP 11.0 and we're excited to share with you its new features. Geospatial API In today’s world geospatial data is on the rise—mobile phones and various sensors provide ever-changing location information on the one hand, while countless applications are interested in querying this data on the [...]
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 technology. We will review the [...]
After having the opportunity to present this topic at the recent Big Data Expo in Utrecht, Netherlands (and a few other expos) I thought it would also be a good time to share my thinking with the online community. Data storage & processing has always been a dominant concern for any enterprise and with [...]
Written by Alex Woodie, IT Jungle Magic Software recently launched a new release of its application development and runtime framework that features in-memory data grid (IMDG) technology. The IMDG - which will eventually support IBM i - will bolster the scalability, stability, and elasticity of applications developed with xpa Application [...]
Background You don’t need to be an expert to realize that a failure of an eCommerce site during Black Friday or Cyber Monday is a disastrous event, leading to huge loss in revenue and reputation for the retailer. As the...
Background You don’t need to be an expert to realize that a failure of an eCommerce site during Black Friday or Cyber Monday is a disastrous event, leading to huge loss in revenue and reputation for the retailer. As the...
Many APIs, Same Data In “The Seven Most Popular APIs in Big Data—Part One,” I described the various forms of popular data management APIs out there and how they’re often used. As I noted toward the end of the post,...
