Archive for March, 2008

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Scaling Out MySQL

March 29th, 2008

With the recent acquisition of MySQL by Sun, there has been talk about the MySQL open source database now becoming relevant to large enterprises, presumably because it now benefits from Sun’s global support, professional services and engineering organizations. In a…

Amazon gets more elastic

March 27th, 2008

Amazon EC2 now makes it possible for failure to be less noticeable within EC2 due to the new ability offered to have an IPAddress move from box to box upon failure. This is really cool because it means you can host your webserver as a service within the GigaSpaces AMI and when it automatically fails over due to our service management and self-healing behaviors, the end user will have a hiccup but will be able to refresh and continue without changing the URL!

Another cool new thing EC2 is offering is the ability to host primary and backup nodes in different physical “Zones” - meaning Amazon will guarantee that the backup location is not on the same power grid as the primary. Using GigaSpaces to create and deploy the instances makes it even easier to ensure this desired behavior is achieved.

See Amazon’s Feature Guides for Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones.

Learn how to build your first EC2 Applications using GigaSpaces

Cheers,

Owen.

Sharing Results of Expensive Computations

March 25th, 2008

A customer recently contacted us to discuss how to use GigaSpaces XAP to minimize the number of times an expensive computation must run. The particular domain is option price stress testing, but the problem is more general and the solution demonstrates a couple of interesting GigaSpaces XAP features.
Consider a service that executes an expensive [...]

Tonight: GigaSpaces Cocktail Event in San Francisco

March 19th, 2008

If you missed our cocktail event in Menlo Park last night — you have another chance. We are hosting another cocktail event in San Francisco tonight at 6:00 PM at the W Hotel (181 3rd street, corner of Howard).
Good food and drinks will be served and some good conversation on technology.
If you are in the [...]

Excel That Scales at Microsoft Developer Conference

March 17th, 2008

As a Microsoft partner we've been invited to attend the 6th annual Microsoft financial services developer conference which took place in New York City last week.
It has been a great experience (about 900 people attended), and for us at GigaSpaces it was a huge success. 
We presented two live demos:

GigaSpaces Excel that Scales: [...]

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