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GigaSpaces and the Economics of Cloud Computing

July 29th, 2008

Ray Nugent posted a message on the excellent Google Groups discussion forum on Cloud Computing that deserves a lengthier response than what I can post on the forum there, so here goes. Ray asks about GigaSpaces pricing on Amazon EC2….

Can scaling be made seamless?

July 29th, 2008

Putting together the two words “seamless scaling” in front of a technical audience is a very dangerous thing to do. The technically savvy folks are walking around with plenty of scars from previous attempts to scale their system - enough…

GigaSpaces R6.6-m1 Released

July 24th, 2008

We’re very proud to announce the avaialbility of the first milestone of our upcoming R6.6 release scheduled for this fall. The release is available as part of the early access program (no registration needed).

The main feature introduced as part of this milestone is the ability to deploy web applications (.war files) into the GigaSpaces service grid cluster. To learn more about this feature please take a look here. In the next milestone we intend to provide integrated, on top of space, scale-out session replication. We believe this feature will provide tremendous value when it comes to large scale web sites who wish to deploy over many nodes.

As always you’ll find additional performance and scalability improvements specifically with using pojo entries in embedded mode. SQL query is faster as well.

The download link and a full release notes is available here.
We’re eager for your feedback, so please give it a spin and share your thoughts with us in our forum.

Cheers,
Guy

How I Ported an Online Gaming Application from (Not-So-) Good-Old-JEE to GigaSpaces in Only 4 Days

July 24th, 2008

I recently had the interesting challenge of moving a traditional JEE shop into the next generation of application server technology. You might be surprised to hear that the transformation took me only four days (two of them spent on Hibernate issues!). The application was an online gaming application, originally implemented in EJB 2.0 and running [...]

GigaSpaces is Available on Apache Camel

July 20th, 2008

Apache Camel is a Spring based integration framework. I was happy to see that David Greco released a JavaSpace connector for Camel based on GigaSpaces. Quoting from David description of the connector: “The javaspace: component is a transport for working…

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