Author Archives: dotan

Analytics for Big Data – Venturing with the Twitter Use Case

Posted on January 27, 2012 by dotan

Performing analytics on Big Data is a hot topic these days. Many organizations realized that they can gain valuable insight from the data that flows through their systems, both in real time and in researching historical data. Imagine what Google, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Architecting Massively-Scalable Near-Real-Time Risk Analysis Solutions

Posted on December 19, 2011 by dotan

Recently I held a webinar around architecting solutions for scalable and near-real-time risk analysis solutions based on the experience gathered with our Financial Services customers. In the webinar I also had the honor of hosting Mr. Larry Mitchel, a leading expert in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Scaling All the Way: Running Scala Applications on GigaSpaces XAP Platform

Posted on August 25, 2011 by dotan

Scala, the “scalable language”, is the hottest thing in the programming languages world these days. You may have thought that innovation these days only happens in dynamic scripting languages. Or you may have thought that Java and .Net cover all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Building Cloud Applications the Easy Way Using Elastic Application Platforms

Posted on June 5, 2011 by dotan

Patterns, Guidelines and Best Practices Revisited In my previous post I analyzed Amazon’s recent AWS outage and the patterns and best practices that enabled some of the businesses hosted on Amazon’s affected availability zones to survive the outage. The patterns … Continue reading →

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Retrospect on recent AWS Outage and Resilient Cloud-Based Architecture

Posted on May 19, 2011 by dotan

According to the television series “Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles”, Skynet computer system began its attack against humanity on April 21, 2011. Luckily that hasn’t happened (or has it?) but on that very day another predominant computing system provided us … Continue reading →

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