Monthly Archives: November 2006
Persistence and the reliability myth
Most of us are used to thinking of persistence as a mean for reliability i.e. as soon as our critical information is stored in the DB we're safe! But what about Hot-Failover? Hot-failover means that we need to keep on … Continue reading
Posted in Application Architecture, GigaSpaces, Java
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An alternative scaling solution
In this blog post, Billy Newport comments on the mechanisms employed that facilitate scaling behaviors in distributed applications. If I may paraphrase, he mentions three levels of provisioning, 1) Thread Pools, 2) process managers (starting processes on demand), 3) operating … Continue reading
Posted in GigaSpaces
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SBA Explained
My good friend Owen explains the Space Based Architecture in his recent blog post. This article ignited a discussion at The Server Side around the subject.
It may be a little bit difficult to fully understand the full value of SBA, howver, for those of us who are looking for simpler and robust real SOA, it is worth looking into.
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