Eric Lai published a provoking article on Computerworld magazine titled “No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam” where he pointed to many references in which different Internet-based companies chose an alternative approach to the traditional SQL database. The write-up was...
George Lawton wrote a a good summary of my JavaOne talk in his article titled Google App Engine plus Amazon AWS: Best of both worlds Google App Engine (GAE) is focused on making development easy, but limits your options. Amazon...
We have been working for a while on our new Cloud Computing Framework (CCF). We wanted to wait until we had some real customers and partners behind the platform in production before spreading the word on a larger scale. And...
This year JavaOne will include really cool lab - PetClinic in the Clouds: Scaling a Classic Enterprise Application. In this Hands-on Lab, participants will take a popular Web application (the Spring PetClinic sample application) and modify it so that it can be deployed on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. [...]
I was very pleased to read an email from Leonardo, who was the winner of the OpenSpaces Developer Challenge (a worldwide programming contest using the Gigaspaces application server which was held last year), saying that he is now a finalist...
According to a recent survey, available skill sets is one of the leading decision factors for organizations in determining which application platform to use, while scalability and availability are next. This reveals one of the main obstacles for bringing enterprise...
Guy Nirpaz, Uri Cohen and Shay Banon came up with an interesting exercise as part of the recent partner training that took place at the GigaSpaces office. In this exercise, the students were asked to come up with a scalable...
Introduction Over the past several years highly concurrent applications have faced some serious challenges when trying to scale on multi core machines. GigaSpaces scale-out-application server aims to solve this problem by freeing the user from dealing with the need to handle concurrency while building his distributed application. For the last [...]
In the past few months, I have been speaking in various conferences about cloud computing.In my presentations, I tried to focus primarily on how one can take practical steps to benefit from the cloud today. To illustrate my points, I...
I’ve been reading this nice post from Daniel Gradecak's blogs. He is asking interesting questions about how architects building their systems and how JavaSpaces and SBA are used when designing distributed systems. See my comment as a feedback to his questions. Thank you Daniel for this post! Shay
Frederic Pariente Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems posted an interesting summary of a case study with GigaSpaces on Sun blog: Gigaspaces curbs latency outliers with Java Real TimeIn the context of a customer proof-of-concept this summer and in the light...
Over on HighScalability.com Todd Hoff posted one of the comprehensive articles on latency that I've read titled Latency is Everywhere and it Costs You Sales - How to Crush it. It covers almost every aspect of latency, and is a...
In my previous post I wrote about two patterns for using a GigaSpaces cluster to solve some of the issues involved in managing distributed applications: Using the space as a scalable alternative to a directory service. With this approach each...
GigaSpaces includes several runtime options and API to access the IMDG. These includes: - Local Cache - Local View (available only for GigaSpace) - Embedded Space - Remote space Where the API to access your data could be GigaSpace API or GigaMap API (JMS API and JDBC API are also [...]
Shay Hassidim, deputy CTO at GigaSpaces, posted an impressive write-up of a benchmark the team ran on Amazon EC2. What's nice about it is that they took a standard web app, in this case the Spring PetClinic, and dropped it...
