Archive for December, 2006
GigaSpaces 5.2 is out
December 27th, 2006Three weeks after the release candidate we managed to get 5.2 out.
Just before new years.
Time to go and celebrate. For more information on 5.2 please refer to GigaSpaces web site, or to my previous post about the 5.2 RC.
Like a Virgin…
December 20th, 2006It's been 6 years already that I've been preaching on Space Based Architecture, and its potential scalability and reliability.
We're now getting closer to the end of the sixth year and there is nothing better that I could have dreamed of than seeing Virgin Mobile's recent PR as a new year present. Not just for myself [...]
SBA FAQs – Integration and interoperability
December 20th, 2006Integration and interoperability are often as crucial to an organization as low latency and scalability requirements. None of us want to use software that would take us months or even years to integrate in our current environments, force us to throw away all existing resources, and only work with a few applications in the organization [...]
SBA FAQs - Who and what is it for?
December 12th, 2006There are a few questions about the Space based Architecture (SBA) that I frequently encounter. In this post I'd like to share with you the answers to some of them, in particular those about the type of applications that can best benefit from SBA, and how stateful applications can be part of that group.
SBA fits [...]
SBA’s General Principles
December 9th, 2006After introducing to you space based architecture in my previous post, it is now time for some general principles of this approach.
Ready? Let's start with a visualization…
• Data maintained in reliable memory
• Condense messaging and data layers into ONE
• Business logic becomes loosely-coupled services that interact and share data through the Space
• Co-locate data, messaging, business logic
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