Archive for August, 2009
The Master-Worker Pattern
August 24th, 2009The Master-Worker Pattern (sometimes called Master-Slave pattern) is used for parallel processing. It follows a simple approach that allows applications to perform simultaneous processing across multiple machines or processes via a Master and multiple Workers.
In GigaSpaces XAP, you can implement the Master-Worker pattern using several methods:
- Task Executors - best for a scenario [...]
A GigaSpaces solution to the Poison Message problem
August 17th, 2009GigaSpaces uses the notion of Event-containers for matching and handling data in the Space as events. This can be done in either Polling mode (the container polls the Space for data matching the criteria), or Notify (the Space pushes matching data as e…
The Word is Out on GigaSpaces XAP 7.0
August 13th, 2009GigaSpaces XAP 7.0 was released in mid-July. For those who missed the buzz, in this post I’ll try to provide a summary of the main perspectives that were voiced about the new release. At the end of this post is…
Global World Wide Elastic IMDG on the Cloud
August 8th, 2009
My friend Gary Berger , Cisco Customer Solutions Architect , posted a blog about GigaSpaces powered Service Virtualization.
This post describes his experience deploying GigaSpaces In-Memory-Data-Grid and his Grails application ported to GigaSpaces across several nodes located in several remote geographical sites. Each site had both an IMDG node and an instance of [...]
From static to elastic web applications
August 5th, 2009During the past few weeks I gave few talks about our latest XAP release and some of the new models that we introduce in this new release. During all those talks I found myself explaining what is the difference between…
