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CloudCamp London
July 18th, 2008I’m on my way back from CloudCamp London. The event was very impressive and I had lot of fun (not only because of the beer and the pizza…)To be honest, I did not imagine that there will be over 250 people in the room, I guess cloud is one of the hott…
Challenges with scaling MySql on Amazon EC2 and S3
May 19th, 2008During the past few months I've talked to many Amazon EC2 and S3 users. They all face the same interesting challenge: how do I develop a scalable, transactional and data-intensive application in the EC2-S3 cloud environment?
They are experiencing first-hand the painful gap between scalable hardware (what Amazon provides) and a scalable application. Some of them [...]
Thoughts on CommunityOne and EC2
May 16th, 2008Last week I’ve attended CommunityOne at San Francisco. The company I work for (GigaSpaces) had a booth at the startup camp.I’ve recently posted in our company blog describing what I was about to show, and now I would like to share a more “intimate” fee…
Startup Camp - San Francisco
May 4th, 2008Come and join us at the GigaSpaces booth in the Startup Camp event, Moscone Center, San Francisco. We will present a live demo of the GigaSpaces solution for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (“EC2”) . In this demo we illustrate how GigaSpaces XAP, the scale-out application server, bridges the gap between on-demand hardware [...]
